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I found this game after discovering Pirate Soft. I think this guy is incredibly wise. He said that despite the game being only an hour and a half long. Costs $10. He still loved this game to death. I immediately impulse purchased the game and played through it.

And yes, this game is 10$. And yes, this game is a walking simulator. And yes, this game is only an hour and a half long.

And yes, I still recommend it.

Когда я был ещё совсем маленьким я завёл себе тетрадку, в которой писал свои мысли, мечты, фантазии и так далее. И вот, однажды, эту тетрадку нашла моя бабушка. И вместо того, чтоб положить её на место, поняв, что это личное, она её всю прочитала. Но она не остановилась на этом, она взяла ручку и исправила в ней все грамматические ошибки. Когда я спросил её почему она так поступила, она вместо объяснения стала с абсолютно спокойным видом разъяснять мне что писать надо грамотно, правильно, а в том что она так поступила нет ничего предосудительного...
С тех пор прошло более двадцати лет, и за всю свою жизнь я больше никогда не создал ничего, что было бы на 100% искренним, я больше не был абсолютно искренним ни с одним человеком, часть меня навсегда остаётся закрытой, не высказанной. Все дневники, рисунки, фотографии, музыка, всё, что я создавал по пути своей жизни я всегда делал с оглядкой на то, что кто-то это найдёт, будет оценивать, изменять, корректировать, пятнать...

И вот, однажды, я купил эту игру.
Дэйви и Кода.
Дэйви, который знает "как правильно", "как должно быть", "как у всех".
И Кода, у которого были свои мысли, жизнь, свой внутренний мир. Человек, который жил достаточно замкнуто, чтоб сохранить себя. Человек, который выражал себя через создание небольших игр. Человек, который перестал делать игры...

Многие ищут в этой игре скрытый смысл, философию. Для меня это драма о взаимодействии индивидуальности и общепринятых социумом норм, стандартов, ожиданий. Драма о взаимоотношении людей. Что бы ни говорил Дэйви, для него было гораздо важнее подогнать Коду под привычные рамки и показать ему, что это хорошо, правильно, нежели попытаться по-настоящему понять его...

p.s. Моя бабушка умерла за два года до выхода этой игры. Саму игру я прошёл только сейчас, спустя четыре года после её выхода.
И я больше не веду дневников и не могу создать чего-либо по-настоящему искреннего.

Ах да, вот он "гид для начинающих": Либо делайте ("творите") как от вас ожидают согласно общепринятым стандартам и попутно отращивайте достаточную "толстокожесть", чтоб не переживать из-за определённой доли критики, либо... будем честными, невозможно стать настолько "толстокожим", чтоб полностью открывшись, пустив в свой мир других не пораниться от того, что эти другие попытаются сделать с тобой.

I finished this game about an hour ago and I still feel a mix of being both emotionally charged and emotionally drained. If you like games that make you feel something, then you will like this. Don't look up anything more about the game until you have finished it. You need to experience it as something completely new and unknown. It will only take you about an hour and a half to complete, but I have a feeling it will stay with you indefinitely, so I don't consider it a short game for that reason.

It's very different from the Stanley Parable, but if I didn't know it was made by the same person, I would've linked back to it. There is a similar feeling of unease to both games. Sort of like an outer body experience. But where the Stanley Parable has a lot of humour and light heartedness, the Beginner's Guide feels intensly sad and desperate. And it really did make me feel that way. There were parts of the game that made me want to throw up, and other parts which I played with a constant stream of tears on my face. It was a solid visual interpretation of anxiety and depression.

Don't go into this game expecting the Stanley Parable 2. I think that's where a lot of the negative reviews come from. This game has one ending, and there aren't places where you can change things or veer off track. If the game tells you to do something, it won't progress until you do the thing. And it's more like an ineractive movie than a game. You are simply listening to a story while you walk around the scenery. There will be people who won't like the game for that reason. And there are other people who will find it hugely effective and immersive, as I did.

If you have finished it, here is my interpretation. (And please please please only read this if you have finished playing.)

Coda and Davey are the same person. The game is about a lonely man talking to himself. Davey is struggling with the fact that he's too afraid and anxious to show his work to people, but at the same time he needs validation, attention, and to be loved and understood. He's trying to understand himself through his creations, and he's trying to figure out if other people will see who he really is through his work. But he is wrestling with his own anxiety, which causes him to cut himself off and leaves him with only himself to talk to.

Ultimately it's about the things that we all create. Whether it's games, drawings, writing, food. Or even our friendships, relationships, conversations, our existence and place within the world. We are all creating all the time, tangible things like art, and abstract things like thoughts, feelings, and experiences. Do we hide these things from people because we are anxious they won't like us. Do we share them with people because we need to be understood, and does this cause us to share too much. Do we only create things to understand ourselves. Will that even help us to know ourselves if we aren't showing them to other people? A one way conversation can only go so far, afterall.

In the end Davey has realised that he wants to experience the world with others instead of alone. He is sharing his various creations and has even provided an email address at the start to invite discussion. His games that once involved conversations by himself have now been opened up. We provide the answers to the qustions that are asked. We read the notes that he wrote, imagining no one would ever see them.

I'm still undecided if the ending is happy. I don't know if he is only showing the games because he is desperate for validation. Or if it's because he has decided we are all better when we open up, and share our creations, our thoughts, and parts of ourselves. He doesn't seem to be at peace with himself in the end. But what's clear is that he has overcome a huge amount of anxiety.

That's my take on the game. Everyone else's interpretation might be very different, but I think that's partly the point of it. It was a very charged insight into the human condition, and I loved it. I would love to hear other people's interpretations too.

I just finished my first play through of this game. I'm having some trouble coming up with what to say about it. Let's go ahead and look at things I felt during this game, because I think that's the kind of game this is. It's out there to make you feel something.

I felt curious, intrigued, puzzled, confused, worried, guilty, nauseous, desperately lonely, depressed... I felt unreachable.

For someone who struggles with depression and social anxiety this game really hit me hard. I'm uncomfortable. I want to cry. The level in which you back away from the stage.... and the floating island... and taking shots at the machine... This game has the ability to move you to your core. I've never worried about "triggers", but if I did... I'd put labels all over this one.

Most of all I feel like... I'm glad I've played it. Not many things in this format can stir such an intense emotional reaction. It's almost the feeling I get after finishing a really good book. It's an emotional hangover of sorts. I'm going to go take a bath, get some hot chocolate and a blanket... and cry. I'm going to wallow in my loneliness for a while because the sadness provide a beautiful striking contrast to my good days.

So, I think a lot of people would be going in and expecting the Stanley Parable- which is fair, I guess. But if you haven’t watched the trailer – don’t watch it, just buy it, and remove any expectations you have!). If you are a creator of *anything*, you should play this game. If you still want to know if the game is worth getting, here’s my experience with playing it:

I first played it in an empty office at 3am, I... usually get in the office when everyone is leaving and leave when everyone arrives the next morning. I’m bad at people sometimes. When I downloaded it - I don’t really know what I was expecting, but I decided to have a doodle pad next to me

I started off by writing about the game, and then a portrait of the person described, and then about myself... The cute imagery on the notes soon turned to darker scribbles and tearstained mush. I don’t know any media that’s ever made me feel this way. The last time I cried this much was when my dog (and best friend) was to be put down.

Alone, in an office, 4am, listening to the ending song on repeat, uncontrollably sobbing. For a place that I felt the most alone- I suddenly didn’t feel that way anymore. These however, were not sad tears.

Fast forward 2 months to remote Sweden. I met an amazing developer, who we shared similar thoughts, feelings and origin stories about game / solo development. I forgot why, but we were talking about creative anxiety, and showing people our games. On the spur of the moment I said “I need to show you this game, you will understand it”. I had longed for someone I could talk about this game with, (and I felt guilty fanning to the developer about their own work), and, weirdly enough it was an empty office at 3am – in the woods, but it was just the two of us. Alone together.

What came after was what seemed like the longest hug. The morning sun started filling up the room, and it was just the two of us just sobbing, paralyzed by emotion. It’s hard to describe such an intimate moment, but seeing a person cry like you cried a couple of months earlier is surreal. I don’t have a good memory, but this is one that I will remember and cherish forever.

I’ve been making games for 10 years but never released anything because I’ve been afraid of what people might think. After playing this game, I realized everything will be okay. It’s not going to be easy, but it will be okay.
And that to me is the best gift that anyone can give.
Play this game or gift it to someone special <3

“艺术家被好的作品伤害有两种方式。
其一，你会发现自己的作品没那么好。但你能从打击中恢复过来，只需记住，艺术的目的并不是比别人好，而是表现出你自己的最好水平。
其二，看到卓越的作品，可能会改变，你对‘何为艺术’的根本定义。而这个打击，你可能永远都恢复不过来。”

通关《The Stanley Parable》之后，我以为已经不会有什么游戏能让我如此震惊了。
但《The Beginner's Guide》让电子游戏带给我的震撼达到了一个前所未有的高度，我甚至对这款游戏产生了深深的敬畏。

我曾因《FEZ》的解谜、庞大的世界观而惊喜不已。
我曾被《What Remains of Edith Finch》史诗般的魔幻现实主义所深深打动。
我曾沉醉于《巫师3》的落日，《辐射4》的街道，海拉鲁平原的风。在《万众狂欢》的小镇，《Firewatch》的森林中，谦卑地讨要一些宁静。
我曾因《风之旅人》、《GRIS》中纯粹的美而泪流满面。
我曾在《NieR：Automata》简简单单的弹幕结局中泣不成声。
我去过那么多世界，看过那么多风景。
而《The Beginner's Guide》毫不费力地粉碎了我对电子游戏的认知。

《The Beginner's Guide》究竟有什么？
它的整个游戏风格让我想起了千禧年后不久的游戏，简单几何模型的拼接，暗沉的色调，粗粝的贴图，空旷的场景，朦胧的音乐。我并不讨厌，反而觉得温暖与熟悉，像是回到了最初探索电子游戏的日子，我面前有一整个全新的世界，所有的道路都是新的，都熠熠生辉。
但倘若论画面，它的确就像是实验性的作品，像是demo，像是游戏设计专业学生的毕设。
可它远不止于此。
它有一个久久地望着孤月的人的悲哀。它有一个从未有过信仰人的忠诚。它有不营字造句，不和梦交易，不被时间、欢乐和逆境触动的核心。
它有一支枪，还有一颗破碎的心。
我从未见过如此真诚的游戏。
看啊，制作者已经把自己的心挖出来，小心翼翼地放在玩家面前。他在整个游戏里，一次一次地用笨拙的双手把碎掉的自己拼起来，却仍要装作云淡风轻。他捂住了自己的嘴巴，绝望而微弱的呼救声却从指缝漏出来。

如果说《The Stanley Parable》是玩弄世界的黑色幽默，是一把击碎残酷现实的枪。
那么《The Beginner's Guide》是枪里最后一颗留给自己的子弹。
所有的对话都是与自己对话。所有的痛苦都源自于渴望被肯定的外在人格与渴望宁静的内在人格之间的厮杀。
到底是多么彻底的孤独，才能让人发出这样绝望的呼救。
我想到了门与门间的黑暗与黑雾。

即便如此，这呼救的呓语中仍富有启发性与哲思。
他仍想说什么，像是被钉上十字架的耶稣。
他只怕配不上自己所受的苦难。不该只是求救，要布道，要分开红海，血染过的地方，要长出荆棘之花。
于是我们得以窥见这伟大的艺术作品。
在2002年，Brian Moriarty在GDC上做了一个名为《The Secret of Psalm 46》的演讲，他讲道：“不久之后，甚至就在我们的有生之年，会有那么一个游戏设计，如同闪电一般照耀我们的文化，它很好辨识，它会是慷慨的、充满旺盛的创造力、令人眼花缭乱的。学者们会花上数十年，甚至数个世纪去对它进行分析。它会是美妙的，它会是令人战栗的，它会令人充满敬畏。”
我想这样的游戏已经出现了。这样的时代已经来临了。
弥赛亚主义是不现实的，救世主未曾存在。
这条路上，只有无数平凡人类的脚印。

《The Beginner's Guide》就像一面镜子。
有的人会探讨它的游戏性，有的人会探讨它的meta元素，有的人会探讨人与人之间的关系，有的人在其中解构现实，有的人分析人性。
它实在是包罗万象，以至于每个人都能在游戏中找到适合自己探讨的内容。又通过这内容，回望与审视自己。
Maybe, this is the beginner's guide to know yourself.

感谢两个小时纯粹的震撼与感动。

I was not ready for this.

I got this game as part of a Humble Bundle, so I didn't pay full price.

I didn't know anything about it.

I just started it.

I have never experienced something similar.
It feels like being with a good friend who is showing you something.
the sound design is amazing.
and it just takes you away and you submerge completely in this wonderful peace of art.
well, and then this happens...
...
now I need to talk to somebody...

The beginner’s guide is a game that I played due to the final push of Pirate Soft. This was due to him saying that it would help you(me) get through creative burnout. I can attest that my purchase made it worse*.

Firstly, the game is quite short, around 90 minutes. I was feeling drowsy for the first 5-10 minutes but I persisted. The beginner’s guide started intriguing me as it went on. All I can say is that it’s beautiful.

The scenery of the games are what I would call art, they’re abstract but defined to the extent that I started to appreciate creation for what it’s for. I’ve dabbled in many art forms, but currently the focus is writing.

The review you’re reading right now is a testament to that goal. I will say that when I purchased this game I put it off for 1-2 weeks. Since I thought it would really cure my burnout or frustration with creating. I gave it way too much importance. A friend of mine, Nhovah, helped me realize this. which made me go through it without the idea that it might or not be true.

I’ve been frustrated with myself due to my inability to write a proper long-form story. specifically a fanfic.

The doubt of wondering if I’m really writing it for other’s validation or mine, because I should just love myself, my voice matters the most I thought. This conundrum really shook me into a paralysis.

I’ve talked to my teachers, and friends. I realized that I shouldn’t beat myself up for a blunder or low point, they brought this into my attention by denoting how hard I was on myself. And perhaps relaxing on that front. In the end learning that I was bottling these thoughts that should’ve been expressed.

Finishing the game I gave myself some time to process the story while reading other’s reviews, guides, etc. Equivocally this game has not given me the cure I was promised, but an added welcomed perspective. I was still scared of writing something, anything, sadly.

I realized that this is a part of the process or a low-point where I was still recovering.

Now I can confidently say that this game isn’t for everyone nor should you expect it to perform a miracle for you. Basically it’s not a replacement. You’ll have to be the captain of your own ship, it cannot replace you at the helm since you sometimes are the one who needs to deal with situations firsthand and gain wisdom through them. Although there’s nothing wrong with relying on someone to steer you right.

Note that I encourage you to interpret the story for yourself, preferably my review serving as a guide.

I'd say writing this review was for my personal enjoyment. Sharing it with all of you is my way to document it and maybe encourage some people to check it out for themselves.



Addendum:

I have to give my thanks to a certain game, Limbus Company, specifically the chapter called Canto V. That’s where I got my quote of "Being the captain of your own ship and steering it". I’d recommend it wholeheartedly and a compliment to the beginner’s guide.

To add to this.
I wasn't expecting my review to garner attention. I was really doubting myself when I posted it, so thank you for reading. My friend Nhovah was amazed when he read it and that really gave me hope to continue writing.

どうもありがとうございます！


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Edit 1: Added an addendum

A piece of advice from me:

After you complete all chapters, go to the options -> audio -> turn off the narration, and then try playing Coda's games again.

So far you've only seen Coda's games through Davey's eyes, but how about you make an opinion of them on your own? Don't rush it, walk around, explore and try to understand the games yourself without someone else's guidance.

This work is monumental. I didn't know what to expect when I started playing. I bought the game because I enjoyed Stanley Parable. I just bought this, without hesitation. I didn't even look at the store page untill after I finished the game. At no point during this whole thing did I know what to expect. After the end, I'm still not sure what to expect... I'm puzzled. I remember thinking that it doesn't make sense for this thing to have a pricetag. Everyone should have this, play this, experience this. But maybe not. They wouldn't get it. Not the way I do. Not in the exact way I do. I guess I don't get it. I was brought to tears by this thing. I feel like... I feel things. I'm rethinking things. This is not your everyday game experience. Maybe I'm overselling it. Maybe I shouldn't write this. Maybe I'm ruining it for someone with this. Maybe I'm being too presumptious. This.. thing. It made me rethink everything I thought I knew about making games. I so desperately want to make games. I just don't.. I haven't really looked at games from these perspectives. I dabble. But not in the ways described here. I want to know more. More about this world. The world of this person. Well done. Hats off to you. I guess I shouldn't post this, but... then again. Maybe no one will read it.

I played this game for first time when it came out and I was really disappointed. I was frustrated. I knew that the author was one of the guys that created "The Stanley Parable". So I launched the game, expecting it to be something fun, something interesting, something ...unique, just like "Stanley" was. And it wasn't. It was just ... boring. At least It's what I thought at that time. So I finished the game, deleted it and tried to forget it, strongly believing that the game is bad, that the game is simply wrong.

And now, two years later, I'm here, writing this review and thinking to myself, that the only one who was wrong all that time - it was me. I expected it to be "The Stanley Parable 2" and it wasn't. I was angry that I wasted my time wating for this game, building up my expectations, craving to play it. But now I realize that it wasn't the game's problem, it was mine. Now I think I can appreciate this game. I think I can finally say that I enjoyed this game. That it is indeed a unique game. Or perhaps it would be right to say, that it is a unique piece of art.

I don't even know why I'm writing this review. It's very likely that only a couple of people ever will get to see it. Probably I'm writing it for myself. This game just inspired me to do so.

Finalizar uma experiência com um nó na garganta, com o coração apertado e os olhos cheios de lágrima.
Não tenho palavras pra expressar o que foi isso e não acredito que ninguém vá vivenciar a mesma coisa, algumas pessoas vão entender da maneira que elas quiserem entender.

Eu poderia escrever isto em inglês, apenas pra alcançar um pouco mais de pessoas, porém sinto que foi pessoal demais pra eu não falar na minha língua nativa.


No fim eu só queria dizer uma coisa, Davey, você é uma das pessoas mais corajosas e ao mesmo tempo incríveis que eu não conheci, obrigado por compartilhar conosco Stanley Parable e principalmente, obrigado por "The Beginner's Guide"

Don't think someone is broken just because you can't understand him.

10/10

I'm not sure that I would call this a game.

I'm not sure what it is.

But it made me feel things.

So, I don't normally write reviews, but for this 'game', I'm going to make an exception because it seems to encourage the discussion of how one interprets it.

To begin, I have to say I was kicking myself after it ended.
I felt like I'd jumped to so many conclusions about who Coda was, only to get backhanded by The Tower.
The one thing that hit me hardest though was the message 'Stop putting lamp posts in my games.'
I just never expected the narrator to lie to me. It made me question what was genuinely Coda's work and what had been altered.

The whole thing was a real emotional ride.

As someone who loves to perform on stage, The Stage was the hardest level. I immediately looked at it from a performer perspective, rather than a gamer's perspective and I just wanted to cry.
Being told to back away from the stage and the giant steel bars coming down over and over broke my heart.

The levels regarding the machine resonated with me. I've always viewed my creative 'source' as a lone flame. Sometimes it's just a little spark and other times it's a great roaring fire that will keep me up all night as I write stories.
So I felt a mixture of sympathy and fear at these levels that tried to find the source, interrogated it, hated it, demanded it to apologise until eventually tried to kill it completely, as if removing the source of creativity would remove the frustration when the ideas wouldn't come.
I suppose it scared me a little. At the time I couldn't imagine someone so frustrated they would willfully simulate destroying their own creativity.

Of course, then I reached the end of the Tower and felt like a real ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ for jumping to conclusions about this person who in reality was just going through a low point and knew full well that the engine can't run at full power all the time.

Overall there's just so much to talk about.
But despite that, I guarantee that once you finish playing, you'll feel just a little bit empty inside.
For me at least, I went into this expecting a thought-provoking experience that I'd have to work hard to understand, but would eventually understand.

Instead, I feel as if I simultaneously understand it completely, and yet will never be able to understand it at all.
Because, I know someone like the Narrator; someone who needs outside validation to feel fulfilled. That, without external praise and acknowledgement, they can't function.
I can't relate to that, I struggle to understand that frame of mind. Which is funny, because the Narrator can't imagine not needing external validation.

So it dawned in me that I relate more to Coda and that's where the empty feeling starts. Because what if people interpret my work, my performances, my creativity the same way I initially viewed his?
I don't need external validation and I definitely don't need people assuming things about me based on what I've created.
And... just like Coda, I've cut people off for being overbearing and clingy. I've always been aware that it's not pleasant for the person I cut off, but I've always justified it because they're a negative presence in my life and my happiness comes first.
I never expected that doing that could have such a catastrophic effect on someone's state of mind.
Or, I dunno, perhaps I did.


Look, tl;dr this game is not really a game. It's an emotional experience that'll leave you reeling.
It's a work of art in truth and if you're into that kinda thing, this game is for you.

I hate it.
I hate how personal it felt.
I hate how I can relate to the narrator.
I hate recommending it as it's exactly what's not supposed to be done.
I love it.

Sinceramente, no se qué pensar... nunca había jugado a algo tan íntimo y personal. Ya sólo por eso creo que The Beginner's Guide merece la pena.

http://niveloculto.com/analisis-the-beginners-guide/

Resulta muy difícil hablar de The Beginner’s Guide. O más bien, hablar de lo nuevo de Davey Wreden (The Stanley Parable) es tan sencillo, da para tanta y tanta tinta virtual, que uno debe contenerse so pena de arruinarle la sorpresa a quien se acerque a él. Así que aquí me tienen, intentando hablarles de esto diciéndole a mi corazón que se relaje y a mi verborrea que descanse un ratito, yendo a lo esencial para que puedan ustedes disfrutar del viaje que van a emprender aquí.

En su capa más superficial, The Beginner’s Guide es otro paso adelante en la serie de videojuegos-ensayo en la que trabaja Davey Wreden. No es para nada un título convencional, sino que funciona como expositor de obras y biografía. Aquí encontramos el curriculum vital de un tal Coda, mientras el propio Davey se inserta a sí mismo para ejercer de narrador cuasi-omnisciente.

La narrativa de la obra va a discurrir a través de la admiración que siente el autor por su amigo, ♥♥♥ una sucesión de sus “juegos”. Empezaremos ♥♥♥ algo tan sencillo como es un escenario desértico de Counter Strike y a medida que se sofistica el manejo del motor Source asistiremos a otras cosas: laberintos, experimentos, juegos que no están diseñados para ser terminados y una plétora de obsesiones.

Por supuesto, por el camino encontramos un montón de metanarrativa. Porque al igual que The Stanley Parable, gran parte de la miga de The Beginner’s Guide está en la discusión que tiene el propio creador ♥♥♥ el jugador: cómo va dejando caer sus ideas sobre la teoría de creación de videojuegos, sobre el papel de la jugabilidad o sobre si el videojuego puede ser algo destinado al autor, sin que nadie más interactúe ♥♥♥ él.

En un principio, confieso que algunas de las conclusiones que iba esbozando Wreden me chirriaban. No tanto por lo que decía, sino por lo poco sutil que se estaba mostrando, como enseñando todo sin dejar que el jugador elaborase lo que tenía por delante.

Pero, por suerte, aquí las primeras impresiones no valen de mucho. O más bien, forman parte del juego metanarrativo que nos plantea.

Desconfía

Precisamente, esa falta de sutileza, ese querer airear lo que piensa en todo momento y por qué creer que Coda ha utilizado tal o cual recurso, es la primera capa que vamos a encontrar. Y es interesante de por sí, especialmente si uno está desarrollando videojuegos o planea meterse en ese mundo. Pero la reflexión a viva voz de Davey Wreden es otra pequeña trampa.

Porque en la segunda capa de The Beginner’s Guide es donde empieza a percibirse el valor real de la obra. Queda para atisbar ese fondo del que quiero hablaros y del que tengo que callarme continuamente para no arruinarle el disfrute a nadie, pero es aquí cuando empieza a nacer.

Como punto de inflexión, aunque se ve más a posteriori, seguramente ese primer juego que veremos cómo se modifica para poder terminarse. Algo que estaba destinado a no tener final, a no ser visto nunca, que ahora se abre para que el jugador penetre en los entresijos de Coda.

Abramos un pequeño paréntesis aquí.

No sé si fue el primero, pero a mí me gusta echarle la culpa a Freud (Psicoanálisis del Arte, 1914) de la terrible modita de sacar conclusiones sobre alguien mirando a su obra. No voy a explayarme (podría, pero esto acabaría mal), pero digamos que la (buena) evaluación psicológica requiere de herramientas verificadas, la propia entrevista ♥♥♥ la persona y una formación científica detrás. Y sin embargo, desde Freud estamos todos diciendo que tal o cual artista era maníaco-depresivo (sin que nadie se lo diagnosticara), que nosequién tenía esquizofrenia o que determinado pintor era sinestésico.

¿Por qué saco esto a colación?

Porque es parte de esa segunda capa de The Beginner’s Guide. El momento en el que el jugador y Davey empiezan a sacar conclusiones sobre el mundo interior de Coda. Y ojo, por mucho que el narrador nos enuncie sus preocupaciones y vaya desarrollando su “diagnóstico”, es inevitable que el jugador haga sus propias conjeturas.

Este juego de influencia ♥♥♥ nuestras propias percepciones va a servir como cimiento de la capa final. Hasta servidor cayó: “¿qué le pasa a este tío? ¿Será que tiene un TEA, que está deprimido?”.

Lo verdaderamente importante

Nada de eso es lo verdaderamente importante cuando lleguemos al final, claro. Todas las impresiones que nos hayamos hecho, el problema que podamos tener ♥♥♥ ese narrador que no para de insinuar y a veces no nos deja pensar… eso va a quedar dinamitado en la última parte de The Beginner’s Guide.

Porque esa tercera capa nos va a tocar a nivel emocional, indudablemente. Va a hacer que nos planteemos todo el viaje que hemos hecho, que nos preguntemos si de verdad merecía la pena pasar por él y poner a nuestra mente a revolotear y a juzgar.

He terminado de jugar a The Beginner’s Guide ♥♥♥ ese picor característico que dejan las mejores obras en los ojos. Y no precisamente por su carga de profundidad al corazón, sino por todo lo que me ha recordado.

Cuando hablé de The Stanley Parable acabé llegando a la conclusión de lo fundamental que era para todo aquél que se plantease desarrollar videojuegos. Aquí podríamos decir que The Beginner’s Guide, en su aspecto más superficial, también va para quien está entrando en el mundillo. Pero es el aspecto final el que multiplica su valor: no va ahora orientado a los creadores (en general), sino a todos nosotros. Porque habla de los juicios que hacemos, de lo mucho que nos apresuramos y del valor de la privacidad. De escuchar al otro, y de cómo disfrazamos el egoísmo de altruismo. Y caramba, lo logra.

Jest kilka rzeczy, które powinieneś wiedzieć o TBG, zanim w nią zagrasz:

- Pomimo, iż gra reklamowana jest nazwiskiem twórcy The Stanley Parable, nie jest ani jej sequelem, ani prequelem, ani żadnym innym -quelem. Z TSP łączy ją tylko Davey Wreden, który jest tutaj dodatkowo narratorem.
- To bardziej doświadczenie niż gra. Co nie zmienia faktu, że porusza ciekawe tematy.
- Skupia się na psychologii, analizach, zostawia pole do własnej interpretacji, jednak nie jest to produkcja dla wszystkich.
- Możesz ją nazwać "symulatorem chodzenia", ale byłaby to (w moim odczuciu) obraza majestatu.
- Jako twórca gier, prawdopodobnie odebrałem TBG bardziej personalnie niż ktoś, kto w gry jedynie gra. Produkcja obraca się bowiem wokół tematyki gamedevu w dość... specyficzny sposób.
- Potrzebujesz 60-90 minut, by ją przejść. Mi zajęło ponad 120, gdyż jednocześnie nagrywałem z niej gameplay*. Czy niecałe 2h zabawy warte są 9 euro? Pewnie nie...

Na koniec, plot twist: nie polecam czytać żadnych recenzji, opinii, oglądać zwiastunów, a zamiast tego podejść do gry z otwartym umysłem. Hm, choć w sumie moją właśnie przeczytałeś. Ach, Ty rebeliancie!

Jeśli lubisz krótkie gry skłaniające do własnych przemyśleń - owszem. Poczekałbym jednak na obniżkę.
Bardzo możliwe. Z własnego doświadczenia powiedzieć mogę tyle, że przejście jej po raz drugi (montaż uznaję za ten drugi raz) rzuciło mi nieco inne światło na kwestie, które wcześniej uznałem za nieistotne.

Pjona!

*Jeśli film zmontuję, znajdziesz go u mnie na kanale... jednak nie będę tutaj wrzucał linka. Z szacunku dla twórcy.

36块钱毋庸置疑，绝对值这个价。
我觉得这个游戏好的地方在于，不同的人可以从中玩到不同的东西。
-尝试不要听旁白bb
-仔细观察那些字符
以下仅供参考，并含有剧透成分
这游戏和The Stanley Parable不同，The Stanley Parable中，具有选择。
相比之下，The Beginner's Guide中的选择，意义不是很大。
无论如何，你都会到达那个地方，无论你是选择1、2还是3。
从表面上来看，“孤独”这个词贯穿了整个游戏。
那么，究竟是Coda孤独，还是旁白孤独呢？
我的答案，是旁白。
旁白以帮助朋友走出自闭为由，把Coda制作的游戏全部发布给一些“他信任的人”玩。每一个人玩完都赞不绝口，但我们设想一下，这些游戏，真的是Coda的初衷吗？Coda设计出的游戏，应该都是有解的。因为在Tower一关，最后荧幕上的字，充分说明了他是一个正常人，而不是一个所谓的自闭症。一个有解的游戏，为什么会变为这样？旁白把每一个游戏变成无解，为的是什么？
那么我们再往下分析。
曾经，我看到过一篇文章。文章讲述了自闭症的特点，其中一条就是“控制欲”。控制欲是自闭症的充分体现。所以我们把这个结论放到游戏里面，旁白之所以改变这些游戏，就是因为他控制欲非常强。强烈的控制欲使他让游戏变成了一个必须跟着他走的游戏。所以说，每一个玩过Coda所制作的游戏的人，都会被旁白灌输一种“Coda是个自闭症”的思想。同样的，这个思想也在旁白的心里面存在，因为旁白在害怕，害怕他一直信奉的，Coda是自闭症是错的。然后Coda在Tower一关中，打了他的脸。123的选择，通向的却是同一个终点，真是讽刺呢。
那么，这个游戏，究竟是Coda制作的，还是旁白制作的，甚至是旁白虚构出的Coda制作的，亦或许是旁白的双重人格？
我们不得而知。
我只知道，我给了这个游戏好评。旁白利用了我。我是旁白信任的人。我满足了他的自尊心。
还是那句话，不同的人，有不同的感触。我的言论也仅供参考。如果真的想了解Coda，就自己去玩吧。
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#2016-11-26
我为了完成一个成就来编辑一波评测

Becomes emotional in a way I didn't think would be accessible to me. Recommended.

What I played: The Beginner's Guide
What I expected: The Stanley Parable 2: Electric Boogaloo
what I got: depression

Maybe he just likes making prison games

Don't read the reviews.

Don't watch the trailer.

You need to step into this experience blind.

I have to say, I never, ever want to play this game again. Not because it was bad, or boring, or any of that. I'd just feel terrible. At the end, the only thing I felt was guilt for playing this. I'm not sure whether I recommend this game or not. It's such an emotional, personal game, which is great, but it's EXACTLY the reason I don't want anyone to play it.


If you have no idea what I'm saying, play the game. Seriously. Do it now.

A very touching story that's about relatability, projection, and seeing others and others seeing you.

Looking for a game? don't buy this.

Looking for a powerful experience? You won't be disappointed

Spoilers ahead-

However, something I think a lot of the negative reviews miss about the game is the focus. Wreden, the narrator, is the focus and I think when you look at it through that lens it excuses a lot of the shortcomings people accuse this game of. The game is heavily interactive and cinematic because it is thrusting you into this world as seen by Wreden. The criticism I see most commonly is that the game does not allow you to interpret anything for yourself and spoonfeeds you. But this actually makes a lot of sense. The fictional Coda and his games are secondary to Wreden's psychoanalysis of them. Wreden's flawed perspective is what this game is about in my opinion.

What I think really brings this game down is the ending. I believe the ideal conclusion of the game would have been right at the end of the tower with Coda's "confession". It is the first and only time that we hear a perspective that is different from Wresden's, and it is the most critical moment in the story. After that, no more commentary from Wresden, no "sappy" ending, nothing highly indicative of how this confession made Wresden feel. Maybe a line or two at the end of drama, or simply "I need to go think about this" would suffice. An ambiguous ending like that would have been far more compelling and climactic.

TLDR; Nothing like the Stanley Parable, If you're looking for a goofy game to make you smile, look elsewhere. If you're looking for a game you can burn through in around an hour that will just make you think about the nature of people, give it a shot.

This is a difficult game to descibe. Most of the negative reviews I've seen can be summed up with "bought it cause I liked The Stanley Parable, nothing like Stanley Parable, I hate it." So yes, if you're looking for another Stanley Parable, look elsewhere. This is an entirely different experience that is trying to convey an entirely different thing.

That is not to say that it is bad, no it's just very different. SP was a narrative driven goofy game. You were given instructions, and you obeyed or disobeyed. You made choices and listened to the narrator react to said choices. You always had junctions, forks in the road, choices to make. The fun was making a new one and seeing where it takes you, standing in a closet doing nothing for 5 minutes so you can listen to the narrator get frustrated. There is nothing like that here.

This game has an experience it wants to convey and you're along for the ride. When I finished the game, I just sat in my chair. Listening to the credit music and reading the names. I wasnt clicking or pressing enter or trying to find some way to skip the credits. I just waited, just thought. I dont regret buying this, and I could probably get it refunded considering how short it was. But i'm not.

I just want this game to be here, in my Steam library. The name just occationally catching my eye and making me remember what I experienced. Maybe driving me to reinstall it and play it again in a few weeks or months.

This is barely a review because this is barely a game. It's a story, a book, a movie that you can move in a bit. You dont have choices to make, you follow the narrative, and that's okay. Because at the end, you're left with your thoughts, how you feel about those involved and that's it.

I dont know if Coda is real or not. Since the game isnt free, I cant imagine he is. That does not mean, however, "Coda" didnt have some form of influence.

Is this game just Davey poking at our heads? Being a bit pretentious? A cry for help or big laugh to see how people react? I dont know. So give it a shot. Take from it what you will and just think about it.

Just think about it.

게임에 대한 이야기를 하는 게임입니다. 게임은 사람이 만들고 사람이 합니다. 모든 창작물이 그러하듯 그것은 인간을 바꿉니다. 만든 사람과 그것을 접한 사람 모두를 바꿉니다. 그러한 게임(또는 창작)에 대한 이야기를 이 게임은 담고 있습니다. 조금 독특한 방식으로 말이지요. 특히 게임을 제작하시는 분이 이 게임을 하신다면 굉장히 슬퍼질지도 모르겠습니다.

- 게임의 모든 내용이 영어로 제공되며 듣기와 읽기가 충분히 되야 게임을 즐길 수 있습니다.
- 미국의 애니메이션을 자막없이 볼 수 있는 수준이면 충분하실 겁니다.
- 솔직히 말해서 게임은 지루합니다.
- 그래도 지루할만한 가치가 있습니다.
- 교훈적이예요.
- 교훈이라도 얻어야지요.
- 모든 교훈이 그렇듯이.

説明でも示されるように非常にナラティブ（体験中心）なゲームであり、実際に体験してみなければわからないタイプのゲームであるため、興味の取っ掛かりを作るためにも、あえて前段の情報を記載する（とはいえストアページPV内でも半ば以上示されてることではあるが）

この物語はどこにも発表しないまま一人で黙々とゲーム開発を続け、ついには制作をやめてしまった人物Codaと、その友人であるDavey Wredenの二人を中心とした物語であり、プレイヤーはCodaの幾多の作品をプレイしながら物語に触れていく。

この作品が何より素晴らしいのは、プレイ体験としては誰もがほぼ一様であるにもかかわらず、人によって感想が大きく変わるであろう所だ。
誰の物語なのか、誰がための物語なのか、公的でありつつも非常に私的、SNSの発展した現代では大なり小なり行われているだろう独善、どこまでが真実でどこまでが”真”の真実なのか、それだけの多面性や深みが90分ほどのごく短いゲームプレイの中に詰まっており、一つの物語となっている。

Beginnerという言葉には創始者のような意味合いもある。The Beginner's Guideというタイトルは、ゲームの世界を創り始めるBeginnerに向けた、作者自身のありのままのメッセージなのかもしれない。

Ich war lange Zeit der Meinung ich Spiele Games um Spaß zu haben. Doch änderte sich das durch Spiele wie The Stanley Parable oder This war of Mine. Es sind Spiele bei denen man auch mal kurz inne hält und über Dinge nachdenkt die einen bisher nicht gekümmert haben, also ... zumindest erging es mir so.

Bei The beginners Guide ging es mir nicht anders es war sogar so das es noch viel stärker war. Es ging soweit das ich manchmal ein Paar Sekunden stehen blieb und nur dem Sprecher lauschte, ich machte meine Theorien wer hinter den spielen stecken könnte und wurde vom Ende nur geflashed.

Ich kann mir vorstellen das es nicht alle so empfinden deswegen gebe ich die kaufempfehlung nur an die rauß die nicht nur Action wollen sondern besonders an die Menschen die auch gerne mal die Symbolik in einem spiel hinterfragen.

Das spiel ist zwar nach 2.2 Stunden durchgespielt gewesen aber das war es defenitiv wert. Ich bin froh dieses erlebnis gemacht zu haben. Ich bin begeistert und hoffe es finden sich noch viele den es genauso geht!

This game achieves in 90 minutes what 90% of games fail to do in 20 hours: deliver a story that you won't ever forget.

You don't play this game, it plays you...

Je viens de le finir. Une fois de retour au menu principal, il m'a fallu dix bonnes minutes avant de me résoudre à quitter le jeu ; je ne voulais pas que ça se termine. C'est ma toute première évaluation.. et d'ailleurs ça n'en est même pas vraiment une, je suis encore trop... inconsolable... pour écrire quelque-chose de réfléchi.
Achetez ce "jeu", c'est tout ce que j'ai à dire. Faites-moi confiance.

Wow, I have just finished and I am left speechless....this is one of them games where you should just jump in and watch no videos, read no reviews, just play, I am so thankfull I did that, I didnt spoil the expireence, I advise you do the same.

If you want to see how much can games get deeper than you think, here is what you have to do:

1. Play this game, it's an hour and a half long. Play it completely blindly and trust me, don't look at anything (review, trailer, even steam negative or positive reviews). You won't regret it, I promise you.

2. Watch this:

3. Then watch this:

4. If you are like me and want even more on the topic, watch this:

It'll be something you remember for quite a while. Let it sink in.

I GUESS PEOPLE CAN ONLY COMPREHEND SPOILER WARNINGS IF THEY'RE IN ALL CAPS, SO SPOILERS AHEAD PEOPLE. ALSO, AND FOR GOOD MEASURE, IN CASE YOU SKIP THIS LINE, TOO-

*SPOILERS AHEAD*

The Beginner's Guide will inevitably polarize the slice of gaming public that plays it (as evidenced by the reviews trickling in). And that is as it should be. It's a game about the death of the author/programmer, and it is deeply ironic, confusing, and sad. It also questions the cultural desire to canonize some things as "art" and discard others, as if there's some apotheosis of meaning to be found in a so-called grand narrative.

The hour and a half narrative experiment features a narcissistic auto-narrator named Davey Wreden who tries futilely to grasp the meaning behind a collection of unfinished micro-games that his friend, Coda, presumably made, stored away, and forgot about. The player explores these little interactive abstract expressionistic games and observes as each programmed space gets increasingly desperate, dreary, and claustrophobic. Most of the time Davey annoyingly lectures about the meaning of each game, which actually violates player agency in a way few games manage (and I think that that might be what makes so many people uncomfortable. It certainly made me uncomfortable). Whereas most games contain programmed boundaries for the player--and the meaning of the experiences in these games unfold based on the choices the player makes or is impelled to make--in this case the narrator acts as an extra constraining force that imposes meaning on works that otherwise feel deeply ambiguous.

I feel the need to defend this game for precisely these ambiguities, as well as for Davey's constant need to fold those imposed meanings back in upon himself (something that I think we all do when looking at an art piece). Many of the criticisms leveled against this game range from thoughtful (e.g. unlike Stanley Parable, which forces players to reflect upon their choices by showing how games constrain mobility, this game spoonfeeds meaning to players and holds their hands during the experience) to irrelevant (e.g. why pay this much for a bunch of unfinished games?). I'm interested some of these responses because so many of them showed that the game caused a stir, and the most compelling of those responses were ones that almost couldn't decide what to think. Stanley Parable was a complicated game because no other game before it had intentionally done the work of exposing the boundaries of the game world. No other game had discussed so completely how games are such powerfully rhetorical devices (a discussion we need to have more frequently, especially given the legacy of brazen violence in video games that comes, in part, out of a history of military involvement with the games industry).

But The Beginner's Guide is something different. Instead of forcing players merely to reflect upon themselves as they engage with the game world, it also asks that the player recognize how one's interpretation of an artwork is colored by personal experience, and that as a consequence it is always already misguided to attribute an absolute intention behind an authored piece. So what do we make of Davey, the actual author? Leaving aside for the moment that the auto-narrator is nothing more than a mirror (or picture, or simulation) of Davey, the author of the game is always inaccessible and non-existent. Once the product is out there, it is up to the player to decide what it means. In other words, everybody's interpretation of a thing is simultaneously subjective (lonely) and socially constructed. That makes meaning both dynamic and intersubjective. Because Davey is an added constraint on the player (metaphorically figured in-game as imprisonment), the player is left to wonder what the hell they just experienced. Was it someone else's loneliness? Was it a desperate game designer crying for help? Was it a massive cliche about how tortuous the creative process is? Or was the game just forcing us to ask these questions in ways we never have before?

The player sometimes occupies multiple subject positions in order to feel loneliness and uncertainty. For example, the player is at one point a student in a lecture hall. With the exception of a professor at the podium confidently spouting off pseudo-intellectual nonsense, the entire lecture hall is empty. The camera shifts to different seats two or three times before settling on the professor, who perceives behind the lone student in the auditorium (his pink cube head reading "listen" on all sides) a massive black hole sucking in everything around it. Meanwhile, the player gets to choose what the professor says. Yellow highlighted phrases are what the professor would actually say to his students. The grey options, always vulnerable or crass or self-defeating, are the honest ones. Maybe I found this scene so touching because I teach college, too, but it confused the hell out of me because at this point in the game I was so critical of Wreden for being an absolutely pompous jerk, and yet I found myself needing to fold this moment back in upon myself. More than anything, that's the sort of confusing push and pull that makes me endorse this experiment.

I recognize that my review might come off as a little ironic, since it seems like I'm attributing absolute meaning to this game. But I'm not. I am just offering a way of thinking about it, and a lot of people might find this way misguided and stupid. That's fine. In the end, it doesn't matter if people do or don't like this game, because what it did is it elicited a confused response that didn't before exist. The cool thing about meta-narratives in games right now is that they suggest game designers are starting to leave behind the tired narratives of hyper-masculine men lugging around heavy weaponry through destroyed cityscapes. Instead, gamers now have to think about how lonely the experience of playing a game is. They have to reflect on the types of questions games are able to raise in ways other media cannot. The possibilities are utterly exciting, and I for one look forward to what developers come up with next.

Esse não é um jogo fácil de escrever sobre, é possível que minha indicação não valha para todos. The Beginner's Guide é um dos jogos com experiência mais distinta de tudo que eu já joguei. E não, isso não é um exagero.
Não é um jogo para qualquer um, se você costuma ter dificuldade para se abrir a experiências novas e costuma se contentar com os jogos "comuns" de FPS, MOBA, RTS, etc, eu já aconselho não comprar esse jogo, pois, provavelmente, não terá um efeito tão positivo.

A palavra que melhor descreve esse jogo é "experiência". Durante o percurso do jogo, você acompanha a narração de Davey Wreden, criador do jogo "The Stanley Parable", contando fatos que aconteceram com ele envolvendo uma figura chamada Coda. Você viaja por diversos cenários, encarando diversos questionamentos sobre insegurança, relacionamento, exclusão social entre vários outros, propostos pelo narrador por meio da fala e da interação com os cenários que você se encontra. Em poucos momentos você realmente interage com o cenário, a maior parte do tempo você anda e escuta Davey contando um pouco mais sobre essa figura tão intrigante que é Coda.
The Beginner's Guide é um jogo relativamente curto, com, em média, 1:30-2:00 horas. Porém, esse é o tempo necessário para o autor contar tudo o que gostaria, com muita calma e alguns devaneios muito bem colocados.

Não ter jogado não afetará o que você irá absorver da narrativa, não há nada que o obrigue a ter jogá-lo. Porém, se você tiver jogado, isso contribui para o jogador se situar melhor dentro da mente de Davey Wreden, então mesmo não sendo necessário, é interessante de se ter jogado. Além do mais, The Stanley Parable é um excelente jogo, então não vai lhe custar muito, além de que serve como um "treinamento" para verificar se você se acostuma com esse estilo não convencional de jogo.


Como já havia dito, não é um jogo para todos, então, caso se encaixe nesse perfil e ache que irá aproveitar o jogo, vá fundo! É uma experiência única!

Ahh, antes de tudo, atualmente o jogo está totalmente em inglês, e como não há perspectiva de legendas ou dublagem por parte dos criadores, verifique se há tradução em sites do gênero. Caso domine a língua inglesa (o vocabulário usado no jogo é pouco avançado), não há nada no seu caminho!

Veredito:
Nota -

NO
STOP
STOP READING REVIEWS
STOP WATCHING THE TRAILER AND BUY IT





this is the kind of game that can be spoiled by even knowing there are spoilers, ive already ruined it for you, why didn't you listen?

I grew up not often wanting to talk to people, and when I did, I didn't know how.

And it's such a strange sensation, to be fully immersed in something I enjoy, and... To find myself wanting to reach out. To talk.

I smiled, cried, laughed, I was afraid, I was finally comfortable. I spoke in silence and solitude at a glowing screen in darkness. I apologized. I reassured. I was myself.

This is a testament to our species. I am so sad. I am full of so much love.

The Beginner's Guide to existential crisis.

Play it. Don't watch the videos, don't read about it. Play it.

I thought I was good at understanding people... Turns out I'm not.

dont read any comments. just play the game.

10/10 갑자기사람들에게 물어보고싶네요.

당신은 고아원으로 처음 자원봉사를 가게 됩니다.
이때 당신이 처음 떠올려야하는 생각은?

1. 학점을 채우려면 앞으로 00시간-0일간 해야겠군..
2. 뭐라도 사갈까..
3. 내가어떤 일을 할수있을까, 하고나서 무엇을 느낄까..


이중에 있으신가요? 아무래도 좋습니다.
하지만 앞으로는 0번째로 이걸 떠올리십시오.

0. 내가 입고가려는 복장중에 화려하거나,
값비싼 브랜드로 아이들 기를 죽이게 하는물품은 없는지 확인해야지

자원봉사를 하려거든 정말 누구를 위한것인지,무엇을 조심해야하는지를
깊게 생각하고 행동해야한다고 말하고 싶네요.

이 게임 또한 비슷합니다. 누군가 도와주는게 과연
정말 그를 위한일인지 나를찾는 일인지를 깨달으며
저지를수있는 비기너의 실수를 잘 담아냈습니다.

The Beginner's Guide - игра ни о чем. Игра обо всем. Игра о друге. Игра о самом себе. Она оставляет тебя в раздумьях, но ты не можешь четко понять, по какой причине и о чем думать... Сложнее всего здесь то, что после финальной сцены ты понимаешь, что спроецировал происходящее на себя... и всё сошлось... Придумываешь ситуации, которые не подходят для этого, но они всё равно связаны... Слишком много времени, чтобы начать думать, и слишком мало, чтобы придти к решению.

Игра просто выворачивает мозг. А если еще и начать обдумывать происходящее... Автор рассказал историю, возможно даже ненастоящую, но от своего лица, предложил делиться своими мыслями на личный E-mail, но ты не знаешь, о чем поведать... Ты просто обдумываешь и понимаешь, что ты - и герой повествования, и сам автор...

Всем тем, кто хочет задуматься над собой и над окружением, стоит пройти её. Да, возможно, это личное послание кому-то из окружения автора. Но ведь не просто так оно оказалось в открытом доступе, верно?

日本語化Modがあります。製作者の方々に篤く感謝。
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/thebeginnersguide_jp_mod/discussions/0/483368526581405250/

レビューとはいえこのゲームについて私が何を書いても陳腐に見えてしまうのですが…。
人生で一つでもゲームを作ったことがある人、作ろうとして挫折した人、作ろうと思ったことがある人。人生で一つでもゲームをプレイしたことがある人、プレイすることが好きな人、好きなゲームがある人、ゲームについて考えることが好きな人。
とにかくあらゆる形でゲームに関わる人に一度はプレイしてもらいたいと思います。
ゲームに関わる全ての人々への初心者の手引になるかもしれませんし、ただのしょぼいゲームの連作になるかもしれません。

Aside from the title, I don't intend to fill this review with much in the way of superlatives or hyperbole, simply because saying something along the lines of “This game changed my life” doesn't really mean anything in a literal sense whether or not it's true.

The statement made by the title is, however, true. Through its narrative and interactivity, The Beginner's Guide provides insight into game design – specifically insight into game designers and the games they work on. Developer commentary, rather than being a separate bonus, is integrated directly into the experience as Davey walks the player through the game while telling them a story.

On the surface, this blend of hand-holding and storytelling makes the game play out rather like a documentary. However, the interactivity of the game is vitally important to the experience. Despite how little my choices actually meant to the game as a whole, I was stricken by the feeling that I am actually an important piece of the overall experience; stricken by the realization that a story told only has value if someone is there to listen. I needed only an inconsequential amount of agency to still feel like I, as a gamer, mattered to the game I was playing – and that's exactly what I got.

What really hooked me was feeling like Davey was speaking directly to me. Not to me as a character, or even necessarily to me as a player, but to me as a person. It was a remarkably human feeling, and I can safely say that no other game I've ever played has validated my existence to quite that degree. It didn't take long before I was completely invested in the experience I was having.

Imagine, for a moment, having a conversation with your favorite game designer. If such a thing doesn't exist, imagine having a conversation with your favorite author, movie director, musician, or entertainer. While playing The Beginner's Guide, I felt like I got something akin to what I'd imagine that to be. A direct line of communication from game designer to gamer through the game I was playing.

I felt like I not only got insight into the game I was playing, but also into Davey as a person. And it was a reminder of the people who give me the experiences I indulge in on a daily basis.

Being so casually reminded that there are actually human beings, with lives, experiences, and stories to tell, behind every single game I've ever played was… an eye-opening experience, to say the least.

And it's left me with so many questions.

Do those people design games with the explicit intent for them to be played? Do they show every single game they've worked on, or are their drives full of unfinished or scrapped projects (if those don't get deleted outright)? Do they make games for business? For profit? Or simply for the joy of it – whether it be their joy as a game designer, or the joy others feel when playing their games? Or do they make games because… it's the only way they can reflect on themselves and grow as people?

I write because it allows me to look at myself objectively and learn from myself. And I didn't even realize that's why I write until I had this experience. Could it be that many game designers actually do the same thing? Are their games, like eyes, windows into their soul?

These are questions I never asked myself until I played The Beginner's Guide.

Now I can't stop asking them.

Прежде чем начать, должен сказать важное. Если вы пришли сюда за тем самым опытом, что получили во время прохождения The Stanley Parable, то вы, вероятно, останетесь разочарованы. Да, фирменный почерк автора заметен невооруженным взглядом. Здесь есть все те же голос рассказчика, разрушение четвертой стены, нестандартные элементы повествования и необычные геймдизайнерские решения. Но если “Притча о Стэнли” являлась развлекательным постмодернистским произведением, то The Beginner's Guide заходит гораздо дальше.

И базовый посыл вроде бы ясен; рассказчик учит нас смотреть на процесс разработки, как на искусство. Но я склонен сказать, что в этом он заходит слишком далеко. Он показывает игроку то, что обычно скрыто, раскрывает все неочевидные механики, все то, что обычно остается за кадром, что не вмещается в поле зрения наблюдателя. И игрок поневоле задается множеством вопросов. А является ли искусством то, чего не видно? Является ли нечто искусством без того, кто сможет его оценить? Очевидного ответа на данный вопрос нет и быть не может.

И начиная с этого момента, начинает раскрываться главная, как по мне, идея “Гайда для новичков”. Может быть, автор и не закладывал ее, но его детище учит игрока самостоятельно задавать вопросы.

Для кого создавалась эта игра? И нужен ли здесь игрок? Быть может, The Beginner's Guide создан автором лично для себя, для саморефлексии?

Являются ли Кода и Дэйви одним и тем же человеком из разных моментов времени? Если да, то разговор в телефонной будке - это диалог с самим собой? И если обратить внимание на двигатель, то можно увидеть, что в таком зацеплении шестерни не способны вращаться. То есть, он изначально нерабочий? Тогда в чем действительно скрыта причина кризиса творчества Коды?

Автор за короткое время поднимает огромное количество таких тем, которым обычно практически не уделяется внимания. Мне нечасто приходилось задумываться, насколько допустимо вмешиваться в чужое творчество, изменяя его для себя и других. Пусть цели вроде бы и благие: ведь всегда приятно, когда то, что тебе нравится, получает заслуженное внимание. Но насколько вредоносны эти влияния? Лишают ли они предмет искусства изначальной задумки? Является ли это неосознанным неуважением к чужому творчеству?

Затрагиваются здесь и менее глобальные вопросы, среди которых присутствуют темы привязанности и одиночества. Но даже тут скрыто второе дно. Кто на самом деле одинок? Самодостаточный Кода или зависимый от него Дэйви? Не переносит ли один на другого свои личные проблемы?

Это можно долго продолжать. Список потенциальных вопросов поистине неисчерпаем. Ведь еще можно проводить параллели как с реальностью, так и с The Stanley Parable (вспомните недостижимую концовку и задайтесь вопросом: а не сделана ли она такой специально?). Но о самом главном я уже сказал. Тем и ограничусь.

Могу ли я рекомендовать The Beginner's Guide? Если вы цените все то, что я описал выше, берите не раздумывая. Благо рефанд еще никто не отменял. Но я прошу, если игра вам понравится, подарите “Гайд для новичков” тому, кто сможет его оценить. Он этого заслужил.

P.S. Возможно, что в некоторых местах я ошибаюсь. В конце концов, практически ничего не знаю об авторе. Но, как и любое искусство, данная игра открыта для интерпретации.

Если вам понравился мой обзор, то можете оценить и другие отзывы. Буду рад любому фидбеку!

Hmm.

I won't talk about the game, so much as make some recommendations for playing the game should you choose to play it. It's just fine if you decide that this game isn't for you.

- Do not have anything specific planned after this game for the day.
- Do not play this game if you're not in a stable mental place.
- Do not play this game if you're under a lot of stress.
- If you play it in windowed mode, hide your desktop icons (right-click>view>uncheck show desktop icons on windows)
- Turn off music, turn off videos, and set your phone and socials to do-not-disturb or equivalent.
- Minimize other potential distractions.
- Take what time you feel you need. But that doesn't necessarily mean it has to take you a long time.
- This game should probably be played in one sitting. It took me literal years to carve out the time to do so, but it was worthwhile.


EDIT / CLARIFICATION:

This is a narrative game. As with most all narrative games, it's worth giving it the time of day to play it when is best for both you and the game. No, it probably won't somehow make you uproot your life and rethink everything, but for the wrong person at the wrong time, it may not be good to play. Likewise, for the right person at the right time, it may be a good way to explore different thoughts and perspectives. It can be completed at a casual, story driven pace within 2 hours.

So uh... who else is here thanks to PirateSoftware?

Rather than just reviewing the game, I went and made a whole video essay about it. I would highly encourage you to play the game before engaging with any content (including my own) about it, PSoft was spot on and this game is fantastic for really anyone that creates... *stuff*

5 bucks is also a steal and thats what its on sale for at the moment.

Here's the video essay for anyone curious:

It's not a game it's an experience

I want to clean my room now

기존의 한글패치 파일 제작자가 패치파일을 내렸다고 하여 한글 패치파일을 다시 만들었습니다.


*2022/08/01
한글 패치 파일 링크입니다.
제 티스토리를 통해서 배포하게 되었습니다.

https://cuziam.tistory.com/entry/%EB%8D%94-%EB%B9%84%EA%B8%B0%EB%84%88%EC%8A%A4-%EA%B0%80%EC%9D%B4%EB%93%9C-%ED%95%9C%EA%B8%80-%ED%8C%A8%EC%B9%98

재밌게 즐기시길 바랍니다!

This game means a lot to me, so if you're so inclined to listen, I'll speak my peace about this 8 year old, 1 1/2 hour long game(?)


I played this game for the first time about a year after it's release. I think initially, I'd say I "got" the game and that I understood what it was saying. Looking back, I don't think I was necessarily wrong, but I was also a kid in high school. It's message didn't fully enmesh with me, but I knew that I had been touched, and this game has stuck in the back of my mind ever since.

At the time, (and even now), I had a wide eyed gaze on game and interactive experience development that hadn't gone as far as I'd like. As the world's gotten crazier, and as I've tried many times to get the ball rolling on my own creative journey, I felt like I needed a cleanse, to revisit an experience that I believe to be at the heart of my journey. I think it helped. Otherwise, why would I be here writing a review for this game at 12 am on a Sunday?

This game is about a lot of things; about being a creator and a critic, about the creative process, about authorship, about the myth of the auteur, about boundaries. It's about the tyranny of the narrator, and meta-textually, about how games, (or, if you're of the persuasion that this should be classified not as a game, instead an interactive experience or something) are a vehicle for a very personal type of storytelling experience that make such an engaging art form. Maybe you don't have the massive branching choice typically associated with player agency or multiple endings or intense gameplay, but you do get a personal feeling that a movie or a book or most RPGS don't give.

I'd loathe to spoil everything, but it's a game about being personally, spatially transported to an environment you can't make immediate sense of, and the narrator trying to tell you what he thinks it all means, trying to take you through the mind of someone he deems to be a quirky creative who only he could understand. One that doesn't have all their things set straight (at least, as the way the narrator thinks they should be set). This is a conversation about how works touch people, what people leave behind when they make something, and if creation should have any particular meaning at all.

A lot of the time, I feel for, and like, Coda, the subject of the game, making things only they understand, with their own obscured understandings and patterns. Making for the sake of it, on their own with no care for outside validation. Coda's work or what we could at least believe to be Coda's work, is very self-conversational. It's tones resonate with me. Sometimes, I want to believe that I could be some kind of daring rouge that goes their own way and makes waves with only the immense power of their limitless creativity and wit. The fact that I haven't released anything, good or bad, and that no one knows who I am probably speaks for itself. But everyone needs goals, right?

Terrifyingly, I also feel a lot like the fictional version of Davey, the narrator. Constantly trying to impart meaning upon someone else's actions. Thinking about how I would do it. To try to pry my way into their mind and to forge a deep connection with someone who'd just rather... not. To take something or someone else and make them your own, to act like you fully get everything there is to know about them. It's a habit that's cost me a lot, it's really painful to hear just exactly how you sound at your worst. But sometimes we need to see what we're doing from another perspective. At the end of it all, I want to make things that people can see themselves in, I want to communicate ideas and give people experiences that they take with them. I want to let these ideas out of my head and help other people ideas grow. And this version of Davey is like that too, for better or worse. I'm sure as I go on my journey through this life, I'll make more mistakes, probably ones I thought I'd never make again, but it is a comfort to be shown where someone else messed up the exact same way. It's easy to get wrapped up in yourself, but humans are social creatures. We can get things done working together.

If you've actually read all this, thank you for indulging me. I hope it gets easier for you too.

Videospiele sind Kunst. Und Videospiele verbinden das reale Leben in einer Kunstform. Kunst die nicht erkennt, mit Gefühlen, die jeder in sich trägt. Sie bieten dir die Möglichkeit in eine andere Welt zu fliehen über die selbst gewählte Spielzeit/dauer.

The Beginners Guide geht an die Nieren, wie kaum ein anderes Spiel. Und ich habe viele ernsthafte Thematiken in Computerspielen gespielt. Vergewaltigung. Emanzipation. Alkoholismus. Krieg. Rassentrennung. Aber hier wird ein Bereich meines Lebens angesprochen, den ich eigentlich nicht in einem Videospiel erfahren wollte.

Wenn man nämlich selbst depressiv ist, ist dieses Spiel wahrlich kein Vergnügen.
Man durchlebt eine wirre Welt, scheinbar vom Autor des Spiels, entdeckt dabei vor allem aber sehr viel von sich selbst.
"Sich selbst" ist hierbei doppeldeutig. Denn man lernt etwas über den Erzähler/die Offstimme... und man lernt etwas über "sich selbst", also über dich/mich...

Wenn man also depressiv ist, dann packt man hier viel zu viel eigenes ran. Ich hatte erst überlegt das Spiel zu Let's Playen... und ich sage euch ganz ehrlich, ich bin froh es nicht getan zu haben... ich hätte irgendwann aufgehört zu reden, weil ich nicht mehr wirklich weiter wollte. Am liebsten hätte ich ausgemacht und nicht weiter gespielt. Manche Dinge sollen einfach nicht erklärt werden oder enden.

Dies ist sicher nicht das 0815 Review was man erwarten könnte. Das tut mir leid, aber es ist dem Spiel "The Beginners Guide" angemessen... denke ich.

Wer Empathie und Mitgefühl für seine Mitmenschen hat und manchmal davon vielleicht etwas zu viel, ist gut beraten das Spiel vielleicht lieber liegen zu lassen. Wer offen ist für neue Gedanken und vor allem zum Interpretationsspiel bereit ist, zwischen den Zeilen, zwischen dem Gesagten und zwischen den Bildern weiter zu denken... ist herzlich eingeladen circa 2 Stunden in die Welt von "The Beginner's Guide" abzutauchen!

Ich empfehle dieses Spiel bedingungslos. Aber nein! Ich hatte keinen Spaß dieses Spiel zu spielen.
Mir saßen und sitzen sogar jetzt noch die Tränen nah!

Videospiele sind Kunst!

The Beginner's Guide is the closest thing to fine art that I've seen in the medium of video games, and I mean it.

The goal of most games that we are used to calling art is usually to create something beautiful—and that goal is, of course, admirable. But The Beginner's Guide endeavours to do even more: to create something interesting. And even manages to break the fourth wall tastefully in the process.

Like Shrek, it has layers.

On layer one The Beginner's Guide is a series of experimental games made by someone named Coda, presented to you by Davey Wreden, the creator of The Stanley Parable. The thing that I rarely see The Beginner's Guide lauded for is that those experimental games are actually interesting on their own, toying with the player's agency in inventive and unusual ways. A prison that's made of skyboxes, with you longingly trying to get inside a room. Panick-stricken people begging you to tell them something, with you suddenly having no dialogue interface. A game about user-generated notes (that were actually written by its creator). A game about the uncertainty of the future where you can only walk backwards.

Those are all very neat ideas, some of them closer to museum art or installations than what we're used to see in gaming, like a game that only has a small level accessible to the player but actually contains a huge byzantine labyrinth.

Then we have later two, the narrator's story. See, the in-game Davey Wreden explains to the player his understanding of Coda's games and even alters them sometimes when the in-game ideas become too unplayable, like the player having to wait an hour to get out of a prison cell. What is not apparent, however, is that the in-game Wreden is also an unreliable narrator who alters the games even without your knowledge to make them fit his narrative about Coda's mental state. A lot of ideas of The Beginner's Guide are discussed overtly through this narration: can we get to know the creator through their art? Can we honestly connect? How should art be judged?

But then there is also the third layer.

When you play a game about a narrator trying to understand the motivations of a developer, while getting completely confused about his own motivations, it's unavoidable to wonder about the motivations of the actual developer of the whole experience. Not Coda, not the in-game Davey Wreden, but the real-life one.

Why did he make this game?

Obviously, outside the realm of fiction there is no Coda and the experimental games were made by Davey himself. Obviously, the in-game character called Davey Wreden does not equal the actual developer of The Beginner's Guide. Since the creator clearly empathises with both sides of the story (or else he couldn't and wouldn't have made it), it's reasonable to assume that all the mutually exclusive acts of the two characters and interpretations of Coda's work as a happy artist or a tormented one are true at the same time, the sides or the real Wreden's internal conflict, and even the imagined Coda's journey might be real (since we know from his blog that Davey was struggling with the issues of validation and fame after releasing The Stanley Parable).

Yet at the same time, since the interpretations are mutually exclusive and since the game so blatantly tells us that you can't fathom what's happening in the artist's head from their art, it is also clear that the conflict is fictional and you shouldn't assume the actual person is going through what you think they are going through based on their art.

But then... why did he have to pin his real name to an in-game character?

Basically, there is a reason while the final image if The Beginner's Guide is a maze. In a rather tasteful attack on the fourth wall, it does not only play as a series of neat game ideas; not only as a heart-wrenching story of an overly obsessed fan; but also as a self-denying paradox when you try to figure out what exactly its actual creator was trying to communicate and why he made it.

Yeah, you should definitely play it.

Spoiler Alert!

I first played The Beginner’s Guide in the summer of 2017. It was the first walking simulator I ever played, before which my knowledge of such games was very limited. I witnessed the tale of a man’s turbulent fallout with a former friend accompanied by a wistful soundtrack and minimalistic visuals. An article or two informed me of the game’s subtext, and that was it.

Fifty walking simulators later, I revisited this game— if not more than to experience some pretty music and pretty scenery. My initial experience? It didn’t age well. Davey’s constant interjections remind me of an eager kid who cannot restrain himself from telling you absolutely everything about the movie he is showing you. (I still think we could’ve had a little less Davey without compromising the game’s integrity.) After familiarizing myself with abstract indie games that offer no explanation, I felt like my hand was being held by a game aptly titled, “The Beginner’s Guide.” But although it might’ve felt a little “tell, not show”-y at times, upon reaching the ending the second time, I realized I had been approaching it wrong all along.

The game truly makes sense when the player makes this realization: The Beginner’s Guide isn’t about Coda, it’s about Davey. We’re seeing the world as Davey sees it. We’re being fed his thoughts, and we’re presented Coda’s games to fit Davey’s narrative. The moment we realize that Davey is an unreliable narrator, the better viewpoint we have in order to understand the game. Knowing Davey is unreliable, and that Davey (as a character) also created this game, the game itself is unreliable as well. The audience must maintain some impartiality in analyzing both Coda’s games and Davey’s interpretations of them. The many contradictions, peculiarities, and biases found in Davey’s dialogue makes me appreciate how, despite the casual delivery of his words, The Beginner’s Guide is astonishingly precise.

The Beginner’s Guide is a game with three layers, all of which are thoroughly enjoyable in their own right. The first, and the most simple to understand, is to follow Davey’s journey at face value, to experience the game as he presents it. The game, at this level, still stands amongst the best walking simulators. It’s serene at times, and equally dreamlike, but more importantly, blossoming with meaning. Interpreting Coda’s games under the lens of depression (as Davey does) makes for a powerful experience. Given how accurate its depictions of mental illness are, I’m not surprised how Davey mistook these uncanny resemblances as fact.

The second layer occurs upon the second playthrough, after the realization at the end of the first. We take one step back and now view Davey as a character, just as much as Coda is. We can analyze the push and pull of their relationship, the situation they’ve found themselves in, and notice the ways in which Davey is sorely mistaken. Discovering the several points in which Davey unintentionally harms Coda over the course of the game sheds new light on how it all went wrong. Listen more closely, and you will be rewarded.

The third and final option is to step all the way back until everything comes into view. To view the game as a whole: the metaanalysis, the implications, and the intended purpose.

So what is The Beginner’s Guide really saying?

This game is a cautionary tale about art criticism. It’s a story about the boundaries of interpretation, and the human consequences that could happen when you cross them. To understand all of this, we must understand that art, unlike, say, the hard sciences, is a world of subjectivity. The ways we create, consume, and interpret art are highly dependent on our brains, which are molded by our ever-changing environment and biology. So when an artist creates a work of art, they infuse their subjectivity into that art. The art is thus a product of the artist. This much is well understood; it’s really common sense. But what about the art critic? When the critic judges a work of art on their own terms, it’s exactly the same. The critic’s interpretation is as much a reflection of the critic as art is a reflection of the artist. As much as a critic strives for objectivity, their work is, in a way, art nonetheless.

So what does this have anything to do with The Beginner’s Guide?

Davey is the critic, and Coda is the artist. Davey’s primary failing is the lack of self-awareness, to realize the limitations of criticism. His interpretations of Coda’s art are tainted because they are viewed through his experiences. To have subjective criticism is one thing, but to use that subjective interpretation to infer, Freud-style, Coda’s innermost thoughts and desires is a grave overestimation of the capabilities of such analysis. To put it simply, Davey overanalyzed Coda’s work, took his observations, and ran a marathon with them.

But make no mistake, this isn’t to invalidate all forms of criticism (or to think this game is exempt from analysis). To interact with art is completely fine. A critic is well within their rights to derive whatever they want from a work of art, or come up with interpretations of Coda’s work a hundred times more outlandish than Davey’s. But when we leapfrog from conclusions about the art to conclusions about the artist, we must treat our conclusions with a delicate approach. The problem is not that Davey views Coda’s games through the lens of depression; but since this lens is one amongst an infinite number of lenses to choose from, to treat his conclusions as gospel and (more importantly) to publicize and preach Coda’s supposed mental illness, is wrong.

Aside from this, there are many other lessons to be drawn from this game. Don’t obsess over someone else’s art. Don’t intrude on personal space. Listen to others. There are several theories floating about, too. But whether you believe that Coda is real, Coda is Davey, or they are one and the same, the aspect of the message that I elucidated above remains the same.

The Beginner’s Guide is a game with simplistic and guided elements while simultaneously exhibiting layers of maturity and complexity underneath. In reality, it’s not groundbreaking in message; concepts such as the nature of art and the idea of the “critic as an artist” have been well explored in aesthetics for decades. However, it is The Beginner’s Guide that uniquely illuminates and explores such ideas with emotional resonance, a contemporary touch, and with endlessly rich complexity.

I have played this game four times over as many years and the impact hasn't faded. It is a thought provoking journey that I understand will not be for everyone.

When I am struggling with work, life, or how I view myself, it is a game I load up to try to get a better understanding of myself, reflect on the past and present, and try to predict my future. This game is worth so much more than $10 to me.

The Beginner's Guide is the most emotionally sobering, game that I have ever played.

There are vary few pieces of media that I've played, watched, or read that have reached me on an emotinal level as this game.


If someone ever reads this review, I can not urge you enough to play this game.

一句话简评：这是一个必须你亲自来玩来体会的游戏，并且本游戏的游戏体验也很难说轻松愉快富有娱乐性，不推荐单纯追求爽快感的玩家入手。
This is one of those games that you must play it and feel it yourself, and I can't say the experience is relaxing and entertaining, for gamer who seek simple excitement and entertainment I DON'T recommend this game.

推荐完了，于是来说说我自己的体验。昨天晚上群里的小伙伴不知为何在玩古墓9，导致我心痒难耐决定打开Steam看一眼我少得可怜的成就，没想到一打开就看到系统给我推荐这个游戏。我当时就满开了：“卧槽！《史丹利寓言》作者的新作！必须好玩啊！”于是，尽管那时候已经是晚上11点半而且第二天早上我还有课，我还是立马买了这游戏开始玩。
游戏不长，我大概用了80多分钟打通了主线，然而玩通之后情绪上的波动让我凌晨4点多才终于睡着。这是一个很难用语言形容的游戏，因为其游戏体验十分独特，并且相当私密。就说我自己吧，作为一个也有点抗拒社交逃避现实但又渴求认同的人，听到Davey说“Where did I screw up？”的时候真的感觉有人狠狠捅了我一刀。我相信每个人在玩这个游戏的时候，一定都或多或少地被这个游戏触及内心深处的某些隐秘的情绪，某些你不希望任何人知道的小咪咪 秘密，而最有趣的是，这种刺探可能根本就是无心之举。
游玩建议：选一个温暖和煦的下午，泡一杯热巧克力，找一个靠得住的好基友以免你无处倾诉，确保没有任何事情（包括出恭）会打断你一次性玩通主线。然后，开始玩吧。

一些胡思乱想

• 还记得在《史丹利的寓言》里，当我们开始不按旁白的话走时，我们才终于发现那些“真正有趣”的事。Davey会不会也像旁白一样，只是把我们导向他想要我们去的地方？他有没有故意向我们隐藏一些Coda希望玩游戏的人注意到的东西？这个游戏会不会也有一个“扫把间”？
  
• 可能是因为之前看了《魔法环》的实况（是的就是谜之声的实况），我总觉得Coda应该是一个女性角色。

Now let's talk a little about my personal experience. The whole story started as one of my friend in our little gaming group was playing Tomb Raider(that Yamatai one) and I suddenly wanted to check on my achievements. So I launched Steam, this game appear on the starting page as one of the system recommendation to me(probably because I have both Ether One and The Magic Circle in my wish list). Then I was like 'holy f it's a new game from The Stanley Parable's author! It must be really interesting!' bought this game immediately and started to play it though it was already 11.30pm and there's a class next morning.
The game itself was not that long, took me about 80min to finish the main story line, but the emotional shock I got from it kept me awake until 4am. It is quite difficult to find the exact words to describe this game, the experience was, I guess, very unique and personal. Take myself as an example, part of me was also refusing to socialize, trying to escape from reality yet asking for validation, I really felt like someone stabbed my heart when Davey started to ask 'Where did I screw up'. I believe everyone who played this game could feel something related to themselves that is so personal they would rather keep only to themselves. And the best part is, the author was possibly not even intentionally doing this.
My suggestions: pick a warm, sunny afternoon, make yourself some hot chocolate, find someone you can trust with all your secrets in case you want to confess something, get all your businesses(including nature's call) done so you can finish the main story line in one go. Then, you start the game.

Some random thoughts

• Remember how things started to get 'really interesting' when we started to act against the narrator's instructions in TSP? Could it be that Davey was also just leading us to the direction he want us to go? Did he intentionally kept us away from something Coda wanted the person playing those games to notice? Could there be a broom closet in this game as well?
  
• Probably because I just watched someone's 'Let's play The Magic Circle' videos, I'm having this wired feeling that Coda should be a female.

Crying wasn't on the agenda for today.

Im sorry for what i saw.
Im sorry for what i share.
Im sorry for what i did.
Im sorry for who i am,

I decided that for one week, in the summer of 2019, I would play and beat a different story-centric game every day. The Beginner's Guide, Darkside Detective, Tacoma, Red Strings Club, and The Pillars of the Earth. The Beginner's Guide was the first.

Now I have a rough relationship with story-heavy or story-centric games, in that I often don't agree with other gamers' views on the excellence of the story. It's not that I think they're wrong, but rather, that we're comparing the story using different benchmarks.

See, I love to read. I used to skip school, so I could read. My personal book library is larger than my game library (which, like so many, has grown quite bloated). I've also written two books and roughly one hundred short stories, some of which are published. So there's no real surprise that I think the written word is king of narrative.

What makes it king of narrative is that, in a book, description is characterization. Take a tree, for example. The way a druid, a bloodthirsty warlord, an alien from a desert planet, a young child, or a farmer will describe the exact same tree will all be quite different. And those differences reveal to us the inner-workings of that character's mind. In this way, books are a form of empathy training, a claim that is borne out by various studies on the matter.

But in a game, that tree is identical regardless of what character you're playing when you view it. First person, third person, 3d or 2d. Realistic or stylized. It makes no difference. The tree is depicted externally, which means the only internal perspective you have access to when viewing it... is yours.

Because of this, I feel so incredibly frustrated when story-centric games merely try to mimic the narrative style of novels. They're simply never going to beat a novel at its own game. Description and character perspective are not the strength of story-telling games.

The strength of story-telling in games is what might at first appear to be a weakness: the only internal perspective the player has access to his own. Put another way: the player CANNOT escape his own complicity in the game. The player is a participant, not a spectator. Furthermore, the game is able to alter the way the player interacts with it. A book cannot - at best, the words could be written backwards or upsides down or something of that nature. But that's nothing compared to the way that a good game can mesh narrative and mechanics.

The Beginner's Guide fully understands this. It doesn't attempt to transmute a novel story in game format. It tells a story in a way only a game can. By making the mechanics (limited though they are) and design itself reflect the story it wants to tell and by making the player complicit in that same story, in such a way that led one journalist to remind some players that "even if you loved the game, you may still want to get a refund." (p.s. don't do this)

It's a short game, and I loved every second of it, not just because of what it managed to accomplish on its own but because of how it demonstrates the power of games to tell new types of stories.

he just likes making prisons ...

This is by far one of the smartest games I've played in a long time. It brought me to tears because it resonated with me in a personal way. I highly recommend it.

R$19,99 por cerca de uma hora e meia de entretenimento. À primeira vista parece bem caro, ainda mais considerando que o jogo não tem um fator replay muito alto: uma vez que você chega ao fim, nunca mais terá a mesma magia nas próximas vezes que você jogar. Entretanto, justiça seja feita: valeu cada centavo. E muito.

The Beginner’s Guide foi desenvolvido por Davey Wreden, a mesma mente por trás do genial The Stanley Parable, jogo indie cuja nova versão em HD, de 2013, foi aclamada estrondosamente por mídia e público.

Confesso que The Beginner’s Guide é um daqueles jogos que eu compro às cegas apenas porque confio incondicionalmente no trabalho do autor. Meu único receio era: depois de The Stanley Parable, seria possível que um novo projeto do Davey fosse tão subversivo e impactante quanto? A resposta é um retumbante SIM. Não, desculpe... Na verdade acho que TBG vai além.

Quem me conhece mais a fundo sabe que eu gosto bastante das obras confusas, que a gente tem que quebrar a cabeça para entender e que possibilitam infinitas teorias e suposições. Gosto de Evangelion, por exemplo, porque ele tem muitas camadas de interpretação para serem exploradas: podemos analisar a psique das personagens, podemos teorizar sobre os eventos anteriores ao início da história, podemos nos por a procurar as referências bíblicas, podemos filosofar sobre os significados da existência a partir das visões de realidade apresentadas, e por aí vai...

E em TBG não é diferente: são tantas as diferentes direções que podemos seguir para tentar entendê-lo que é praticamente impossível esgotar as discussões. O jogo chega ao ridículo de questionar a atribuição de sentido – ou seja, podemos tentar compreendê-lo até mesmo nos recusando a compreendê-lo!

Para resumir, no jogo você faz basicamente quatro coisas: andar, observar, clicar e (principalmente) ouvir. Não é necessário nenhuma habilidade nem conhecimento prévio sobre games para jogá-lo – só é preciso saber mexer um mouse, apertar quatro teclas de um teclado e ter um inglês razoável para poder entender a história.

Você vai explorando os cenários e contemplando a narrativa, e pode levar o tempo que quiser. O mais interessante, contudo, é o modo como a definição de “jogo” é extrapolada ao extremo. Não há regras, não há desafios, não há objetivos. Não há inimigos, não há ameaças, não há vencedores nem perdedores. Não há limite de tempo. The Stanley Parable já era assim, mas aqui as coisas são reduzidas aos elementos essenciais; podemos dizer que The Beginner’s Guide oferece uma experiência mais crua do que a do seu antecessor espiritual. Mas não é uma crueza no sentido de polimento; muito antes pelo contrário: é um jogo tão bem acabado quanto. Mas é uma crueza que o faz mais franco, sincero e visceral do que The Stanley Parable.

Como eu mencionei antes, são muitos os níveis de interpretação possíveis. É um jogo que fala sobre jogos e sobre processos criativos. Fala sobre relacionamentos e sobre a necessidade de validação externa que temos enquanto seres sociais. Fala sobre introversão, isolamento e depressão. Fala sobre a atitude de julgar, que é tão própria do ser humano. Mas se eu tivesse que escolher uma palavra para definir o jogo, eu diria que The Beginner’s Guide é sobre o ego.

É possível enxergar o outro de forma plena? Como, se nem a nós mesmos conseguimos enxergar? Tudo o que vemos nada mais é do que uma imagem do outro projetada por nós mesmos, e essa imagem sempre será transfigurada por nossos próprios filtros sensoriais e mentais. É como se todas as pessoas fossem feitas de um material meio reflexivo, de forma que ao olhar para elas sempre víssemos um pouco do nosso reflexo. “Minha definição de você diz mais sobre mim do que sobre você.”

Outro ponto muito curioso de The Beginner’s Guide é que o jogo cria primorosamente uma aura de intimidade e conexão que deixa o jogador confuso. Por um lado você começa a realmente se envolver na história e querer saber cada vez mais o desfecho, e por outro você se sente um tanto desconfortável em ser cúmplice do narrador, que lhe expõe a perspectivas tão particulares sobre as coisas. Sem dúvida o jogo me causou algumas sensações que nunca tinha sentido antes ao jogar outros jogos. É complicado dizer o que é arte e o que é jogo ali. E é exatamente isso o que mais me fascina nos jogos independentes: a honestidade, a identidade, a riqueza criativa, a expressão tímida que se engrandece e transcende a intenção de quem se expressa.

Mas voltando agora à Terra, recomendo muitísimo essa singular experiência narrativa que é The Beginner’s Guide. E a sugestão serve para todos. Mesmo. Independentemente do sexo, da idade e de ser gamer ou não.

Due to how precious it was to dive into this game completely blind, this review hints very lightly at what The Beginner's Guide is really about – and only in the “Thoughts” section.

If you're considering making this purchase but are unsure if you'll like The Beginner's Guide and want to enjoy it as spoiler-free as possible, read ONLY the next section.

I know, very funny. Anyways:

The Beginner's Guide is one of those games where you walk around, someone shows and tells you stuff and, through the power of an excellent narrative, you feel moved and/or affected by the end of it all. Not a fan of slow-paced games? Hate walking simulators and such? This game is not for you.

The Beginner's Guide features, for reasons I can't tell you and I'm truly sorry about that, very 'basic' graphics. Are you looking for some visually stunning sights? This game is not for you.

The Beginner's Guide is less than 2 hours long. Yes, even if you 'take your time' and 'explore'. That's it. That's what one playthrough is going to give you. Unless, I don't know, you stay still and do nothing for 30 minutes. That's up to you. Not into short games? This game is not for you.

The Beginner's Guide will not make you feel happy by the end of it. Do you hate it when games make you feel down and talk about completely relatable issues and make you reflect about your own sad excuse for a life? This game is not for you.

Alright, if you're still here: this game is for you.

If you're looking for a daring and new way to reflect upon the phenomenon of games, at a slow and (very) personal pace. If you're not afraid of seeing a little bit of yourself reflected in someone else's suffering. If your idea of “having a blast” is to be left reflecting about a game hours after having finished it.

If you're afraid, like we all constantly are, and you feel like this is the perfect time to do some fighting back and some thinking, this game is for you. Don't be afraid to play it and, if possible, make sure to do so in one sitting.

Once in a while a game crosses my path that convinces me that simply making and playing games isn't enough: we need to talk about them.

We need the conventions and the Steam reviews. We need the blogs and the Youtubers. We need our gaming friends and the coding community. That is where ideas spring.

Any programmer will tell you – as I've heard from many – that the time spent actually coding a game makes up the minority of its creation time. Schematics drawn hastily on pieces of paper to be tossed into the bin and half-drunk discussions during late Friday nights last much longer than nervously typing fingers ever will.

So what lies in that gray area of thought when a developer isn't busying themselves with typing actual code?

The Beginner's Guide answers that. Through one long conversation, The Beginner's Guide truthfully, unexpectedly, relentlessly and brutally gives you every single one of the answers. Even to the questions you didn't ask. Especially to the questions you would never dare ask.

The Beginner's Guide exists – and can only exist – precisely in that gray place of fear, regret, lonesomeness and, worse of all: naked truth.

“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”
― Fernando Pessoa

It is not a game. It is an experience. Remember how it felt when you get lost in your favourite book, where written words created world, emotions, personalities and mystery? The beginners guide is something like that....

Once you understand the meaning of this game, it really hits different. "Are you motivated by your own creativity or by external validation?"
Is it worth it to push yourself to the limits and reach breaking point just to get the approval of others?
7/10

Sometimes I feel like Coda, sometime I feel like Davey, Sometimes I feel like Davey's image of Coda.

This is the first game that has genuinely made me cry. Play it.

The beginners guide is not a game. It is an experience similar to reading a book and walking through an art gallery. The story it tells is one that leaves you thinking, and if you're into that kind of stuff, this is for you.

It is not even a game. It's an idea. A few of them, given a form, that would help it to resonate with people like me.
I think you are not supposed walk it through. Much more feel it through.
And now I have to go and think. About a lot of stuff.
I'm incredibly thankful to this game for giving me those thoughts and feelings.

The beginner's guide - метафора длиною в три часа.

Я буквально только что окончил прохождение и сразу решил поделиться с вами мыслями о ней:
Начну пожалуй с того, что Beginner's guide - не игра в полном смысле этого слова, beginner's guide - это художественное полотно, это, если угодно, произведение искусства, метафора и идея, но ни в коем случае не просто "игра". В основе же этой идеи лежит история про разработчика игр и решительно неясно, реальна ли эта история, рассказывает ли она нам про реальных людей, но, если быть честным, это не имеет значения.
Почему?
Потому что The Beginner's guide - это не история про глубокие философские думы, она не пытается оспорить существующие концепции понятий бытия, она не претендует ни на какие неведомые высоты или вселенски-сложные концепции, The Beginner's giude - крайне частная история, крайне авторская, и потому прекрасная.

The beginner's guide поднимает вопрос творчества и творческих людей: того как именно оно оценивается и в каком виде особенно ценно, он показывает нам абсолютно разные и буквально параллельные точки зрения на этот счёт и преподносит она нам это через очень неспешный и медитативный игровой процесс, приятную музыкальную составляющую и отличную озвучку закадрового голоса. Достаточно ли этого, чтобы я посоветовал вам The Beginner's guide? Сполна достаточно.

"Гайд для начинающих" - очень личная история, очень тёплая и очень самобытная, она заставляет задуматься над всем тем творчеством, что окружает нас и подталкивает нас к вопросу: "Что было в голове создателя, когда он корпел над своим детищем? Как он пришёл к этому? Что он вложил?"

Кому я могу посоветовать эту "игру"?
Всем и каждому, даже людям далёким от индустрии видеоигр, я искренне советую скачать и пройти The Beginner's guide одиноким вечером, с кружкой любимого кофе/чая и в наушниках, потому что, поверьте, она не заберёт много вашего времени, но даст вам много больше - почву для размышлений.

I've been a semi-professional photographer for the last 10 years or so, but when i started photography I had no interest other than entertaining myself for years. I had no need for validation, until one day I put some photos online. It led to some amazing thing happening to me, I've written articles, sold images to companies and people all over the world, even took 5 years to photograph and write my first book. However the one thing it did was it make me sacrifice some innocence to achieve and receive validation for my work. I could not longer just enjoy making photos for the fun of taking photos, those days are in the past.

That's the message I took away from this game. One your creative innocence is gone, it's gone for good. You sacrifice your innocence, you hope to grow from doing that and you do but you pay a heavy price. Is it worth it? You only find out by giving your creative innocence away and each person decides if the price was worth it.

As an aside the one thing I hate about modern gaming and social media is the obsession with completion. A game comes out and it's basically "Much complete game so I can get new games and complete them.". This "game" confirmed that games should enjoyed for what they are, creative artworks, not just products to be used and abused for personal gain, too many people are just obsessed with using games and social media to find some personal validation. We return to "loss of innocence" a game once played and completed can never yield the enjoyment of the first play through, a price is paid and those racing to complete are nothing but "gaming ♥♥♥♥♥♥" who don't seem to care for the joy of gaming, simply gaming for gaming's sake.

The first ever game I finished under 2 hours and I won't refund. You guys definitely should try it if you are into mental&narrotion games. I don't want to spoil your experience because it's completely story-based game. My suggestion if you are going to play is to play it at once. I mean don't leave the computer until it ends. I believe it'll be more influential in this way.

Edit: Grammar

Hey tu!
Si, proprio tu che leggi questa recensione. Magari hai visto il trailer di questo gioco e non ci hai capito molto. Adesso te ne potrei consigliare o meno l'acquisto, ad esempio elencantodi i suoi pregi e difetti. Il problema sarebbe: come si fa a valutare l'utilità di una recensione? Dovresti conoscermi, capire i miei gusti. Magari dai uno sguardo al mio profilo, vedi i giochi che ho giocato di più. Butti un occhio sugli achivements. E' davvero sufficente? Mi conosci adesso? Cosa hai capito di me? Puoi giudicare la mia recensione?


Se ti ho fatto sorgere anche solo un piccolo dubbio, dovresti provare The Beginner's Guide, potrebbe rivelarsi un'esperienza interessante per te.
Oppure no. Non ci conosciamo dopotutto.

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("I Feel Empty")

"The Beginner’s Guide n’est pas vraiment un jeu, c’est certain. C’est plutôt une sorte d’expérience qui utilise le game design de manière remarquable pour nous proposer une narration puissante et bien écrite. Celle-ci explore des thèmes qui risquent forcément de vous toucher et de vous faire réfléchir d’une manière ou d’une autre. Pour moi, cela a été le cas. Le soft a une haute portée symbolique et laisse également une grande place à l’interprétation personnelle dans ses motifs et ses thèmes. Comme Davey Wreden (le développeur et voix off du jeu), le joueur pourra retrouver un peu de lui-même dans les jeux de Coda, et ceux-ci pourront l’aider à s’interroger sur sa propre solitude, son propre rapport à la création, à l’inspiration etc. Par contre, je dois avouer que le jeu m’a moins marqué que Stanley Parable ne l’avait fait en son temps parce qu’il lui manque la petite touche d’humour que ce dernier proposait. The Beginner’s Guide reste beaucoup plus sérieux sur toute sa durée, notamment parce qu’il traite de thèmes assez graves. En plus de ça, il faut vraiment savoir dans quoi on se lance avant de dépenser 9 euros pour un tel titre et c’est pour cela que la page Steam vous avertit très clairement. Toutefois, pour peu que vous soyez un tant soit peu ouvert à une expérience hors-norme prenante et touchante, The Beginner’s Guide en vaut la peine même pour une heure et demie très linéaire.

+ Des thèmes intéressants qui font réfléchir
+ Une expérience narrative maîtrisée et touchante

- Pas vraiment un jeu, il faut savoir dans quoi on se lance
- Très court (1h30) et linéaire"

Делиться творчеством всегда тяжело, потому что ты боишься оценок, неправильного понимания, или вдруг вообще никто не заметит того, что ты с таким трудом создавал. И не важно, что это - текст из трёх строк, эпическое полотно два на два метра или музыкальное произведение в стиле рэп. Всё потому что создавая, ты вкладываешь душу и частичку себя в творение и её никак оттуда уже не удалить. В этом всегда есть что-то личное. Знакомясь с таким произведением, ты знакомишься с автором, пусть и через призму его творчества. Это отличает авторские работы от поделок той же машины, которая фигурирует в этой игре.

Дэйви Ридн в этот раз поделился с нами чем-то невероятно личным, безгранично душевным и трогательным. Несмотря на то, что The Beginner's Guide по-прежнему игра-тюрьма, теперь она полна не столько абсурдных «выходов», сколько вполне реальных вопросов о творчестве и жизни, через призму всё той же «тюрьмы», в которой каждый из нас так или иначе пребывает. В большинстве по собственной воле.

Как и в The Stanley Parable делать ничего не нужно, только ходить и слушать. В этот раз скорее даже больше думать. Не каждому это понравится, но тем кто любит личные истории и философские размышления – строго рекомендую.

Stanley Parable'den bildiğimiz arka plandaki Dave sesi eşliğinde yine sayko ötesi, tabiri caizse beyin s**erek derin felsefi mesajlar veren bir oyundayız. Tabi bu sefer onlarca farklı oyun sonu ve farklı yol yok. Bu seferki konu, şahsın arkadaşı Coda'nın yarım bıraktığı veya yapıp saldığı birkaç tuhaf oyun üzerine gitmek.
Oynanış namına pek bir getirisi olduğunu söyleyemem. Ama zaten Stanley Parable'yi de zevkle oynatan şey oynanışı değil diyaloglarıydı. Burada da o yönden benzer bir mesele var. Ve açıkçası bu oyun bana SP'den daha tuhaf ve kafa karıştırıcı geldi. Eğer Stanley Parable'den zevk aldıysanız bu oyunu da oynamanızı öneririm. Tabi indirimle alarak ve orta derece bir İngilizce bilerek (Türkçe yama vardı ama kurup çalıştırmayı başaramadım).

Внезапно, но для того, чтобы получить максимальное удовольствие от The Beginner`s Guide, стоит следовать тому же совету, что давали многие когда вышла The Stanley Parable: ничего не читайте о ней. Ничего не знайте. Просто играйте. Всё, что будет написано ниже - это литьё воды, бессмысленное и беспощадное. Литьё воды на тему того, почему в данное творение стоит сыграть каждому, кто остался неравнодушен к истории Стэнли и просто любителям необычных историй.

Это рассказ о творческом пути одного разработчика игр. Загвоздка вся в том, что игры он создавал, скажем так, весьма необычные. С первых же минут к нам обращается сам создатель игры и начинает демонстрацию, разбавляя её своими комментариями. Он будет пояснять происходящее, помогать нам с прохождением и...пытаться понять смысл игры вместе с самим игроком. Да-да, автор комментирует происходящее, но сам зачастую не понимает что происходит. И это одна из главных особенностей местной истории.

Дело в том, что на экране местами творится самая настоящая наркомания, суть которой объяснить просто нереально. Нам пытаются разъяснять всё по серьёзному, нам пытаются втолковать какой-то зарытый глубокий смысл. Но очень тяжело верить в то, что многие продемонстрированные игры несут в себе что-то. Всё "Руководство новичка" напичкано фирменным юмором и прекрасным стёбом над играми. Здесь полно шуток на тему недоделанных игр, багов, что есть геймплей и прочих поднимаемых в индустрии вопросов. Да, их ещё нужно найти и понять, но если поймёте - удовольствие гарантировано.

Но в игре полно и серьёзных моментов. Среди шуточек и странностей всё же проглядывается смысл происходящего. На смену чему-то смешному приходит нечто депрессивное. Особенно это видно во второй половине игры. Умопомрачительное действие сменяется философской бродилкой с рассуждениями. А последняя треть игры и вовсе меняет взгляд на некоторые элементы, увиденные раннее. Да даже само название заставляет задуматься. "Руководство новичка"...это демонстрация того, как не надо делать игры? Или надо?

Но пожалуй, я прекращу лить воду и просто скажу что главное, ради чего, на мой взгляд, стоит сыграть в Beginner`s Guide. это то, как она совмещает в себе юмор и глубокий смысл. Это очень смешное и в то же время очень серьёзное произведение о том, каково это - быть разработчиком и том, через что приходится ему проходить. Да, её не пройдёшь 20 раз как Stanley Parable так, чтоб каждое прохождение было уникальным. Да и в целом она всё же не такая интересная, как да-вы-уже-сами-знаете-какая-игра. Да, она займёт у вас не больше двух часов. Зато каких! Рекомендуется к ознакомлению.

P.S. Не смотрите скриншоты и трейлер! Проспойлерите себе пару классных и дико упоротых моментов во всём этом действии.

我只是想为我自己做游戏，我喜欢做游戏而已，而不是为了获得他人的认可或商业的成功。

20 reais por uma hora e meia de entreterimento parece caro, não? Mas ir ao cinema gastar 25 reais + pipoca + refri + transporte parece uma boa ideia. Que ironia

im not crying you are....ok we can cry together

played this game 3 years ago and thought it sucked, refunded it. now stanley parable ultra deluxe has released and my view of games has shifted.

yeah buy this game

wow...just...wow
Speachless...
I played it from start to finish in one sitting and finished it 5 minutes ago.
I think I will speand the next few days thinking about this and will pop into my head for years to come.

Thank You for sharing this story!

Warnung:
"The Beginner's Guide" ist in keinster Weise ein Nachfolger, das heißt weder offiziel noch in seiner Art als Spiel, von "The Stanley Parable". Wenn man sich "The Beginner's Guide" kauft, sollte man sich darübrt im Klarem sein.

Zusammenfassung: (für die Ungeduldigen ;) )
Ein ungewöhnliches, in vielerlei Hinsicht anderes aber meiner Meinung nach dennoch gutes Spiel. Wer ein zweites "The Stanley Parable" sucht, ist jedoch absolut falsch. Wer hingegen in der Stimmung ist, sich auf eine durchaus etwas philosophische 1 1/2 stündige Geschichte einzulassen (denn das ist "The Beginner's Guide", vielmehr eine pseudo-interaktive Geschichte) der hat eine gefunden. Ob er die Geschichte und die Art, wie sie erzählt wird, mag, muss jedoch jeder selber entscheiden.

Review:
"The Beginner's Guide" ist, wie bereits eingans erwähnt, eine Geschichte. Es erzählt diese auf interessante und eindrucksvolle Weise und wirft Fragen zu zwischenmenschlichem Verhalten auf und regt somit zum Denken an. Es ist also in keinster Weise einfach mal "leichte Kost" für zwischen durch und ehr als Kunstwerk zu verstehen.
Das Spiel läuft auf der Source-Engine und ist graphisch jetzt nicht der letzte Schrei, etwas, was man bei einem so nieschigem Titel eigendlich aber auch nicht erwartet. Man kann es sich anschauen.
Über weite Strecken hinweg läuft man als Spieler nur durch Level und hört dem Erzähler zu. Generell ist das Spiel sehr monolog-lastig. Es gibt kaum Interaktionsmöglichkeiten, Allles ist linear und geskriptet. Rückblickend betrachtet scheint dies jedoch sogar gewollt.
Die vielen einzelnen Level oder "Spiele" hingegen waren teilweise sehr interessant und hab schon in sich zu Nachdenken angeregt. Leider wurde man viel zu häufig in einem Gedankenschwerem Moment oder beim (Versuch) weiterem Erkundens (nicht das es etwas zu entdecken gäbe, wie gesagt absolut linaer) vom Erzähler weiter gezerrt, auch wenn das durchaus ebenfalls gewollt sein könnte.

Fazit:
Insgesamt wirkt das Spiel auf mich ehr wie eine Kunstwerk oder Essay. Etwas, was man in dreißig Jahren in Schulen Interpretieren und analysiren wird, so wie es jetzt auch mit Kurzgeschichten und Bildern der Fall ist. Ein Kunstwerk, dass mir persönlich letztendlich durchaus gefallen hat. Aber wie das bei Kunst und Literatur so ist, es ist Geschmackssache.

So bleibt mir nun also nur übrig, zu hoffen, dass ich euch ein ungefähres und hilfreiches Bild von der Art von "The Beginner's Guide" gegeben habe und es jedem, der meint mit einem solchem Spiel etwas anfangen zu können, weiterzuempfehlen.

MfG Morris
PS.: Wenn ihr am Anfang das gefühl habt, es sei nichts für euch bzw. es lagweilt euch, empfehle ich: spielt trotzdem weiter. Es kann sein, dass es euch am Ende doch noch gefällt. Sind ja nur 1 1/2 bis 2 Stunden.
PPS.: Wenn ihr es durchgespielt habt, würde mich eure Meinung interessieren. Lasst vl. einfach einen Kommentar da.

whenever i'm fretting about art block, i acknowledge it's because it's keeping people from seeing my work, and knowing that i'm a talented and valuable person. when i feel this way, i play The Beginner's Guide again.

this game is reflective of the struggle against a mindset that the culture of Art Under Capitalism ingrains in all artists, nothing is created for the sake of creation, there is always an ulterior motive; to want to be recognized for one's work, to want to be a deep, provocative artist, and for your art to live on forever in the cultural consciousness

but sometimes, art isn't deep. this game presents the radical concept that art doesn't need to have meaning, art doesn't need to have context, that games don't need to be playable. but it's how the narrator responds to this concept that is explored.

in this game, the narrator, Wreden (a cute pun on "read in,") is continuously endeavoring to reveal an elusive deeper meaning underlying the works of reclusive game developer Coda. in pursuit of this, Wreden "fixes" the games Coda creates so that the player can reach the end, and ultimately tries to present them to the public as windows into the soul of Coda, and it's this infringement that ultimately leads Coda to sever their relationship altogether, leaving Wreden directionless and miserable

this story is fiction, but only in a sense. Coda is the personification of a fleeting, whimsical artistic drive, without a higher purpose, creation for creation's sake; the abstract concept of the "muse". Wreden represents everything else; the drive for validation, the drive for success under capitalism, and a selfish drive to be the one to finally "help" Coda. the radical concept being presented in this game that art being expected to have a purpose is ultimately a detriment. someone can just like making prisons

如果你是玩了史丹利的寓言之后意犹未尽想要体验作者其他的奇思妙想游戏才点到这里的话，那现在最好退出。但如果你玩完了史丹利的寓言，想要体验一下作者的独白和对自己内心想法的剖析，以及他经历了什么………那么新手指南也许会让你了解一些东西。

《史丹利的寓言》制作人Davey Wreden在他22岁的时候，因为不喜欢市面上条条框框限制玩家的商业游戏，遂捣鼓出来了《史丹利的寓言》。但这个游戏收到的赞誉和关注远远超过了老哥的想象，就像他前段时间（2021.7.29）在推特上庆祝史丹利寓言发布10周年的时候说的，“史丹利的寓言真的彻底改变了我的生活，我无法想象如果没有它我今天会是什么样。这十年比我最狂野的梦还要大胆。我实在是太幸运太感激了。”

史丹利的成功给他带来了声望和财富，也带来了玩家们的好奇和媒体的关注。很多人都想知道他是怎么创造这一款游戏的，然后无数的问题伴随着巨大的关注接踵而至。于是老哥就抑郁了，差点崩溃，就像新手指南里面说的，“我没灵感了”，在做完史丹利过后，戴维一度丧失了制作游戏的灵感，每天除了自我怀疑还是自我怀疑。

游戏里面的制作人coda其实就是他自己，一开始这个部分的自我结合的很紧密，但随着名声渐起，对制作游戏的不同想法开始把这部分的自我撕碎，直到分成两半。那段时间戴维过得非常痛苦，面对无数玩家期待的新游戏却没有一丝一毫的点子，差点就这样沉沦下去。好在最后他挺过来了，于是顺便把这次的内心交锋做了个新手指南，给玩家们展示出来，也算作给玩家们一个了解自己内心挣扎的渠道。

我打完了新手指南去看老哥的推特，还挺活跃的，好像21年还新开了一个工作室叫IVY ROAD，现在没事就写点电影评论文章啊，个人文章啊什么的，还说自己正在准备《史丹利的寓言：特别版》的制作，在重写整个游戏文本。总之，老哥现在过的挺有意义，还顺带玩了几波新出的独立游戏（《12分钟》和《杀戮尖塔》）。

Al igual que The Stanley Parable (anterior obra de Davey Wreden), recomendar The Beginner's Guide no es fácil. No se trata de un videojuego al uso; no hay objetivos, ni mecánicas, tan sólo caminamos mientras oímos un narrador en off. Dicho así, no parece muy atractivo. Pero aquí lo relevante es contar “algo”. Es uno de esos videojuegos denominados "walking simulator" que apuesta fuertemente por la narrativa.

The Beginner's Guide trata sobre el proceso creativo de un videojuego, así como de la interacción del creador ♥♥♥ la obra, pero también trata de nosotros mismos. Detallar más sería arruinar la experiencia, por eso, os invito a que le deis una oportunidad y lo probéis. Su duración sólo es de alrededor de una hora y media. No puedo aseguraros que os gustará, pero, sin duda, disfrutaréis de una experiencia única.

play this game. dont watch any videos or read too many reviews. just play it. it will find a way to resonate with you.

This isn't just a game, it's a work of art.

It's more than a game for me, i been feeling miserable as a game dev and this person's story literally talked to my soul. I never enjoyed a game like this way, just amazing.

Dear lit. teachers:

Play this game.

The most important video game ever made.

1. 트레일러를 보지 말 것.
2. 이미지들을 보지 말 것.
3. 멋진 경험을 하고 싶으면 직접 해볼 것. 그 전엔 아무것도 보지 말 것.

영어입니다. 멋진 2시간이었습니다.

감사합니다.

This is a special game with an interesting and original central idea. I can’t write too much about it because I’m afraid of ruining the story.

I played The Beginner's Guide without knowing anything about it. Not knowing what to expect is an especially great way to approach this game.

It has some fantastic moments and it kept me engaged the whole way through. I highly recommend that you play this game and I’m excited to see what the developer comes up with next.

For the whole playthrough i felt like i'm not supposed to be there, felt like i'm standing in the middle of the conflict and it made me feel really sad and guilty myself. There's not much to say if you don't want to spoil other's playthroughs.

Not a fan of Stanley Parable, but this is truly a great story, not sure if you'll enjoy to participate.

You're searching for a solution that isn't there.

I feel like i shouldn't feel empty but at the same time i do

Cabbage shapes our nation.

I am going to try making things again too now. If it doesn't reach them it's reached me, Thank you

嘛，1个半小时走完流程，没有分支。

不知道有没有人贴过汉化：
https://keylol.com/t186780-1-1

2020年更新，由于原steamcn论坛改名，现已改成其乐地址。

The Beginner's Guide Review.

Developer: Everything Unlimited Ltd. (Davey Wreden)
Genre: Walking Simulator, Story.
Price: $9.99
Played on: GTX 650, Core i3, 1920x1080 Res.


The Beginner's Guide is a narrative driven game where you as the player get to explore the many creations, they're not really video games as seen by the screenshots above, they are just creations made by a man trying to describe how he feels through making these creations.Or is he?

This review is hard to write because there is no good way to describe this game, it's very different to anything I've played to this day and I feel like different people will come out of it thinking different things, that's not anything new, people have different thoughts on games all the time but this game is very different from that. This isn't a fight between is the game good or is the game bad. It's more of what the game means to you.

Throughout the game, you see all kinds of enviroments and walk through them. They are all very linear and they are all unique and pretty odd. I wish I could describe these enviroments but I really don't want to spoil the game and each one of these enviroments are super important to the game and again, I don't want to spoil anything.

I found the game oddly satisfying to play even though I usually don't like fully narrative games. The game just works, it's not a game to be critizised and it's not really meant to be rushed or played slowly it's just a very very very distinct game compared to other games I've played. Some people might not conisder it a game, some people might consider it a breakdown of a man.

In conclusion, The Beginner's Guide in my opinion should be bought and played without knowing anything about it, some people might not like the game, I feel like some people will like this game more than others and vice versa because the game has so much to discuss and to talk about while having almost nothing to confirm. This was a weird review to write just because this game is so unique.

I recommend The Beginner's Guide only to people who want a story, no gameplay, no quests, no weapons, no fighting bad guys. Just a weird emotional crazy story.


For breaking my mind slightly with just a narrative, I give The Beginner's Guide a
For more reviews like this, check out my curation page here!

Note on recommendation: This game is roughly the length of a movie, and I got about as much enjoyment from it as I would a movie. Therefore, I'm going to go ahead and recommend this game despite its length and lack of interactivity. That being said, this game is for a very niche audience. I would not recommend it to the general gaming audience.

Note of reviewer: I make games for a living, and this game talks about people who make games. As a result, the messages in this game are going to reach people like me. It will not mean as much to others.

Note on the game: This game deals with depression and people pleasing, which could be uncomfortable for some players. Be sure you're ready for some heavy material before diving in.

Actual review:

What more needs to be said than what I already said? This is a rather heavy examination of some of the psychology that goes into creative works. There are parts that feel very contrived throughout. I didn't actually feel like I was looking at what I was told I was looking at. People don't really make games exactly as presented here. Nonetheless, there are facets of it that ring painfully true for anyone who has attempted creative work like this. It'll get you to think about your relationship not only with your work, but with other people's work. For that, I think this game was overall a success.

If you're considering getting this game, I suggest you find someone who has played it and who knows who you are first to see if they think you'll get something out of it. Otherwise, you may find yourself disappointed.

Steam offers a refund for any game you've played for less than 2 hours. As this game is about 90 minutes long, this means that theoretically anyone who buys it could get a refund after playing through it. Please don't do this to indie developers. If you buy this game, keep it in your library. If you're not willing to part with $8-10 on 90 minutes of entertainment, then... well, maybe these kinds of games just aren't for you.

First of all, this is not a game, this is definitely an experience.

When I first knew that the game's maker is the one who made Stanley Parable, I thought that it would be some kind of a sequel. It turned out that I was wrong as it showed a different level of gaming experience that I was extremely down to explore.

As it's quoted in the game's description, it has absolutely no goals to achieve, just like a movie or a book, it tells a story of a person struggling to deal with something. Your main goal is to follow the narrative and see what the experience would bring to you.

I've had a strange feeling that I can't quite describe throughout the whole game, I've felt sadness, loneliness, how cruel life can be sometimes, how I wrongly handled situations before, how people probably felt about me doing something...
The game truly teaches some meaningful lessons.

It's hard to describe it without giving up spoilers, and even if I use them, you won't get much as you would do by playing it. The game would make you think about your life, about other's lives, it would make you question yourself more than once in that 90min experience. I totally recommend it if you are down to immerse yourself into a world of feelings that you might never encounter in any other game.

Смысл в том, что эта игра - выпендреж, а вы все идиоты.
Кода, The Beginner's Guide

Это проект, который рассмешит, проект, который заставит неимоверно скучать, проект, который очарует и/или разочарует.
Ибо нечто под названием The Beginner's Guide - слишком парадоксальный продукт; но вовсе не потому, что он частенько рассуждает о парадоксах.
Это нечто еще сложнее объективно оценить, чем прошлую игру паренька по имени Дэйви Вреден (хе-хе) – The Stanley Parable. The Beginner's Guide понравится только тем, кому понравился The Stanley Parable; однако далеко не всем, кому The Stanley Parable понравился, понравится The Beginner's Guide. Подробнее?

Построена игры по главам, где почти каждая - игра от Коды. Схема та же: в геймплейном арсенале у вас есть лишь ходьба (вранье!) , однако игра строится не на вариативности, сюжет ее линейный. Поэтому она, возможно, лишена стольких восторженных отзывов, хотя это отнюдь не отнимает ее индивидуальности. Не отнимет ее ни устаревшая сурсовская графика, ни малое количество музыки, ни частенько возвращающаяся скучность геймплея. Ведь главное в этой индивидуальности – история, приправленная изрядными галлюцинациями.

История разработчика Коды, друга Дэйви и очень экстраординарной личности, не уступая предшественнику, также нехило умеет ломать каноны. Она найдет смысл в хаосе, подкинет истощенному уму немного пищи, где-то рассмешит, где-то растрогает, потому как полна иронии (даже иронии над самой собой) настолько, насколько полна рассуждений, аллюзий и чего-то безнадежного… Особенно актуальна она будет для людей, прикасавшихся к творчеству и созиданию, впрочем, это не обязательно: кто-то подчерпнет сатиру на разработку игр, кто-то претензию на философию - каждый все же найдет что-то для себя. Конечно, если решится: не всем придется по душе монолог человека о человеке вместо геймплея.
Думаю, стоит сказать: это история слишком личная. Это – подарок, это – послание; я считаю странным, что мы вообще это увидели, странно, что это продают. Что ж, хорошо или плохо то, что история личная – каждый решит для себя сам. Мое мнение вообще скованно спойлерами. Очевидно лишь, что это не The Stanley Parable. Не знаю, советую ли я игру, очевидных минусов в ней для меня не так много, однако, какой не была фраза «на любителя» избитой, именно такой The Beginner’s Guide и является.

这是一款西斯空寂的致郁作，而且流程短于两小时，你玩/看不懂的话总可以退款。
对作者davey感情十分复杂，千言万语汇成一个词，interesting…

为了游戏体验建议不要看任何视频/剧情评测，下面是严重剧透的瞎扯淡...

!!!spoiler!!!
"这是我朋友的一系列游戏，他叫coda，他不再做游戏了，也许我把这些游戏分享出来，他会再次开始做游戏。"

从开始游戏听到这一段旁白后，我就开始猜测coda发生了什么，抑郁了？大概要玩到一串风格诡异的游戏？
之后故事发展很符合我的想法。coda不停的做着独特的游戏，却又从不发布。体验前期几个游戏的时候我觉得蛮有趣，plus庄子曾港过的那句话，子非鱼焉知鱼之乐，也许人家coda就是做给自己玩的呢？

但是旁白不停地在讲着他和coda的故事，coda做的游戏只给“我”看，“我”从游戏里解读出coda的各种想法，觉得coda的抑郁倾向越来越明显，“我”越来越想要帮助他。于是我的想法逐渐被旁白牵走了。也许coda真的饱受折磨，想要通过游戏跟别人交流。看这些游戏，看看里面那些矛盾的自我，旁白的讲解剁么有道理，coda他剁么痛苦啊。

然后在担心coda会自杀的无限忧虑中旁白牵引着我走向结局，“我”擅自把coda的游戏分享出去了，coda就做了游戏来传达和“我”决裂。故事到这加上之前的机器之死，我几乎确定coda要自杀了，结果coda最后作品里的内容狠狠的打了脸。
其实从头到尾，真正病态的都是旁白…“我”才是那个需要coda的游戏来让自己感觉良好的人，通过向别人展示他的作品，展示“我”能解读出这些游戏背后的含义，哪怕是通过修改coda的原设定也要硬生生进行解读的含义。而coda就是像我一开始想的那样，人家乐意做给自己玩。。

故事中后段之前我还有点动摇coda是否真实存在，看到结局之后我觉得coda只是作者的创作人格？或其他。然后看了作者在他官网的声明，史丹利寓言的成功让他进入了一段抑郁期什么的。说实话coda是个真实存在的人还能让我感觉好一点，把coda和“我”看作一个人矛盾的两面来细想真是非常致郁。
充满创作灵感的那一半你不想受常规限制，自娱自乐的去做些东西，更多的探索自己的内心。另一半的你却拼命的想要从这些东西里找出意义，推广出去，证明自己的与众不同和成功。于是创作型的你决定决裂，再不产出…
这些游戏属于coda，旁白把他们放出，用他的解读去引领我们继续过度解读。然后包括我在内的一群玩家玩过之后又在不断地去对davey制作这个游戏的意图进行解读，有点讽刺吧…

当然也许整个故事只是davey懒得迭代更新demo想不断尝试新东西但是又想做出一个能成功的好作品的自我纠结与思考，于是最后搞出了个自传故事。

"He is two men – he has ALWAYS been two men. That’s what any man or woman who makes believe for a living must be. The one who exists in the normal world…and the one who creates worlds. They are two. Always at least two."

An intriguing exploration of the creator's psyche. Not for everyone, but it's heart is in the right place. There is truth here.

I expected something from this, but I wholly recieved, emotionally, what I could have never anticipated out of this game. I'm sitting here on my break, crying in the middle of a Panera. Play it.

A game that starts off fun and then later it kicks you in the nuts.

Would recommend!

If your friend is an artist play this please, or if you make art I guess whatever

Im sad now.

The Beginner's Guide to Feeling Bloody Awful.

As a creative, this game hits very close to home as I struggle with these similar issues- self-doubt, isolation and reclusivity, and Davey only brought forth these repressed feelings about myself and my own personal work. I have a lot to think about after playing this game, and I sincerely think this game will stick around with me for a very long time.

Thank you for this.

The Beginner's Guide is an examination of what it means to try to interpret someone through their work. Davey Wreden takes you on a journey through the games his friend Coda made. And through these games you will get to know Coda, to understand him.

The Beginner's Guide is a game I haven't stopped thinking about since first finishing it 7 years ago. It means a lot to me, and I really appreciate Davey for having created it. A game that is just as good replaying it as it is the first time. I can't say more about the game without spoiling it, I urge you to play it, and to do so without reading anything else about the game.

Okay, with this being a game from the Stanley Parable developer, there's only one thing you can be certain about before diving into it, and that is you can't be certain about what awaits you. And I guess that's where I could've stopped writing a recommendation, booped that blue upvote button and been done with it. But I want to lay out everything I've had brewing in my relatively small mind after finishing the game in order, and what better place is there for that than a publicly visible recommendation, right? Spoilers (in a sense) follow, so feel free to skip the next paragraph.

Somewhere along the way it becomes obvious that the Coda character, who is a centerpiece of the story, and his relationship with narrator, as well as circumstances surrounding it are all fictional, and many will say that Coda is there to embody a part of developer's mind, his creativity, perhaps. It really sells you the premise as genuine at first, but sadly the narrator voice acting, as well as script, gives it away closer to the end. But for the sake of ideas that you can carry out of this game you can play pretend that the Coda's and narrator's story was real, like you pretend the movie's script is real.

And the general idea I carried out is "nobody knows anyone else, ever". Sometimes you have this acquaintance, and you may think you have gained insight into his mind and soul by watching him, his struggles, his life, his work and dreams, but you're viewing it all through the prism of your own perception and worldview, you project yourself onto this person. You must be really careful to not confuse your own reflection for what the other person really is. And in that, communication is integral. Perhaps that's why communication's theme is also brought up so often.

I can see it being called a pretentious walking simulator, and it's probably not far from truth, but it's not important. What is important is that if I found something in these small encapsulated levels, then it was not a waste of time for me. It is not a waste of time if it made me ask questions and answer them to myself. Maybe the questions that are not the of kind that developer intended me to ask, but you know what they say, there's "no such thing as a stupid question".

Moreover, the game brought out that curious feeling about the worlds inside games that I had once a long long time ago, as a kid, a feeling that I've lost as I learned more and more about videogames' mechanics, what makes them tick and where their limitations lie. It became dull to try and push beyond their boundaries, to try and reach distant stars that are drawn on the skybox. But with this game, for a moment, I felt something a bit like that long lost emotion.

All in all, the Beginner's Guide can be hit or miss, but it's short and cheap so hey, what's the worst that can happen if you play it?

Disclaimer: I'm very impressionable and this recommendation was written at 5 am.

Это короткая игра, ее можно пройти за полтора часа. Впрочем скорее даже не игра, а интерактивное кино или расказ.
Крайне рекомендую ее тем для кого создание игр и геймдизайн это не пустой звук. Не тот геймдизайн под которым сейчас некоторые понимают создание коробки Скинера для выманивания у игрока денег или времени, а тот который про левелдизайн, нарратив и разрушение четвертой стены. Это игра как раз про творческие поиски, самовыражение и поиск себя в этом мире.

Из минусов тут только немного завышенная цена(можно подождать распродажи) и остутсвие русской озвучки (можно включить субтитры).

Шедевр
Не уверен, можно ли назвать это игрой, скорее подойдёт слово "проект". Рассказчик повествует нам историю одного начинающего создателя игр, который отличается своим стилем ведения игрока по сюжету. По началу может показаться, что нас просто забрасывают в разные локации и повествуют о их создании, но всё гораздо глубже, чем кажется. Со временем мы начинаем понимать всю философию создателя и его отношение к играм в целом. И они не всегда совпадают с нашим мнением и мнением автора.
При всём этом "The Beginner's Guide" отличается действительно интересным повествованием и продуманным сюжетом, который будет вести нас через весь путь старого друга автора. Отличное музыкальное сопровождение в совокупности с приятным голосом погружают нас в атмосферу игры целиком.
После прохождения игра заставляет вас задуматься и переосмыслить некоторые аспекты значимости смысла.
Впервые за долгое время игра оказала на меня столь сильное эмоциональное воздействие. После её окончания я ещё долго обдумывал все мысли, донесённые до меня автором. Я хочу вернуться туда снова..

В целом это уникальный опыт, который нужно прочувствовать самому.
Must have

As soon as I saw this game, I bought it on impulse, without a second thought. I went into this without watching any trailers, or reading any info. Other than knowing I had enjoyed his other project, The Stanley Parable.That's probably the best state of mind to play this game, as long as you're not expecting it to be another game like that. This is a completely different experience; more experimental and evoking entirely different emotions and reactions. As someone who struggles with my own creativity in terms of expression and finding a balance between seeking validation and keeping certain things for myself...this game was almost uncomfortably personal to me. I've never actually played a game before where it felt like the game was speaking directly to me in some way, or presented to me in such a way that it elicits such a intimate response. I would suggest it to anyone who has a folder full of unpublished games or notebook full of unfinished ideas, or just a mind full of untapped potential. This game is like a secret, warm space you can take some comfort in, because you are not alone.

I loved Stanley, but I love this game so much more. When I started it I was skeptical, but in the end I couldn't put it down and played it all in one sitting. If this were a book -- an apt metaphor in my opinion -- it becomes a page turner quickly. And like a good book, once it was done, I simultaneously wanted more and was thankful that it ended where it did. The whole week after I kept thinking back to it.

Where Stanley was coy with its themes, TBG is a slow-dive deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole. And if it sounds like I'm being vague, it's because I have to -- it's an experience that deserves to not be spoiled.

Set aside an afternoon, put some good headphones on -- do yourself a favor and play this game.

this is a game you play for two hours

and think about the rest of your life

I did not cry, I did not cry. I did not cry, I did not cry, I did not cry. I cried.

You should play the game without reading what anyone else has to say on it. Don't worry about whether it's worth your money or not. It is... and money is the last thing on your mind after you finish.

这波叙事，就挺突然的，突然在它一点点地渗透积累最后自然而然理所当然的反转高潮。但既然各种意义上新手指南都值得一玩，还是绕开叙事扯扯细枝末节防剧透比较好。而且游戏全程语音没字幕，我这四级过1分的嘤语水平万一扯淡扯飞了，至少不会产生误导。

整个游戏大概是，史丹利寓言的开发者Davey给玩家介绍了一个他喜欢的开发者Coda。

开场没多久Davey提到一点，随流程推进再往回看时会很有意思：玩家更容易看到游戏与他们所预期的、认知中样貌的不同之处，相对的，不太关心其个性化的存在与表达。与本意无关，我在想，虽然我也是传统意义上的创作者，但“作品在公开的那一刻就和作者没关系了甚至和作品本身也没了关系”的确更能代表这个时代，而将作品与作者捆绑“睹物思人”的观念虽没被替代，却显而易见地被压倒了。观众，同样是赋予作品意义的人。只不过，当个人喜好、追求、解读中出现排他排异，从喜A厌B变成因为喜A所以厌B，通过否定他人来满足自己，这事儿的性质就转向了相反的极端。这也恰恰是环境现状。此时Davey的话则意味着一种盲目自负的状态，真相与真相饱含的信息因此不值一提。或者说，一切都不值一提。

之后Davey认为Coda第一个重要灵感的来源是个意外，一个穿墙飞天bug。这里不置可否只谈“意外”。意外的美妙在于它跳出了创作者的意，跳出了创作者的舒适圈，跳出约定俗成顺理成章，对于创作的影响确实值得关注。所以Davey的推测直观上没啥毛病，穿墙飞天bug的确有可能让Coda从全新的角度审视思考场景和场景结构给人带来的别样感受，进而有了后续作品中大量的超现实的尝试。

不过，面对新手指南中各式各样的试验、Davey的鸿篇解读、Coda的平和表达，我完全跑偏去关注Coda在场景设计的视觉表现力上的进展了。从简单的纵深，到冷峻的大透视，再以光影操纵视线，最终自如地发挥：戏剧化情节辅以声光电化，将场景提炼强化，使得看似随意的日常同样可以产生撩动人心的力量。

图像影像中的趣味从何而来？来自抽象与具象两方面的信息。可惜我这水平谈抽象容易把它简化成规律偏离到技法层面，所以各位知道它在那就得。具象信息则可分为两部分，显与藏。显帮助快速把握基调，让观众看到“存在”，藏增加表达的厚度与力度，让观众期待“不存在”。“不存在”又使观众得以从“存在”的束缚中挣脱，整个画面、场景、设定也因此活了、开阔了、具有说服力了。即便这些感受往往是观众自己说服了自己，但这正是创作者预期的结果，所以更准确的，是创作者设套使观众脑补自洽。

说到这其实就很明了了，因为它的应用很广，也不限于视觉艺术，比如山水画以亭台楼阁暗示人迹、悬疑惊悚恐怖镜头的取景与运镜，比如若有所指又似是而非的歌词、模棱两可但主观无罪的鉴赏家评测，包括我在这煞有其事地叨叨你们没法知道我究竟是在浅谈还是扯淡，都是显与藏尤其是藏的运用。再简单点，别把话说满，留下想象的空间。而“Coda”便是把藏玩到了纯熟。各种一眼望不尽的场景，相互遮挡的建筑，走廊，拐角，立柱，夜色中的远景，黑暗中的幽光，经过地形和镜头控制，藏无时无刻无处不在。

至于Davey眼里的Coda/创作者的独立思考个性表达交流碰撞冥思苦想郁郁不得终，等等这些我琢磨着也确实没什么好说的，因为做这行当本来就要面对这些，“无关困苦，都是过程”。反倒，坐回观众席静静欣赏才更有意思更有意义。或刻奇的以小见大，或傲慢的一言以蔽，旁若无人自说自话的过度解读不仅仅会偏离真相——

淡已扯尽，到这里就可以打住了。

可我还是想祝大家都能找到自己的穿墙飞天bug。

更多评测 ＠80days

This isn't a game but more of an experience. It is a 2 hour one though, before you balk at the price tag and has a heartfelt and well acted script that will ask you questions and perhaps prompt you to do some introspective exercises.

There really isn't much to add here. I was on the fence for a long time about getting this and in the end I am very glad that I did.

Best cry while you press W simulator.

I honestly don't know what to say after playing through this, and I think that might just be the point. Sometimes you don't have to say anything. Sometimes you don't need to find a purpose in things, or to try and understand them.
The Beginner's Guide worked like a reboot button for my brain. Definitely recommended.

Последние несколько лет своей жизни я постоянно нахожусь в метаниях между теми или иными вещами. Мне всегда хотелось заниматься творчеством, но я никогда не мог начать. Помимо того, что мне не хватало усидчивости, в глубине души я боялся внимания. Вернее сказать, я боялся осудительного внимания. Когда-то давно я, пытаясь начать писать стихи, прочитал одни из них своей бабушке. Я уже точно не помню её реакцию, но в тот момент я ощутил холод в душе, мне стало больно. Наверное, с того момента я больше не показывал свои стихи никому, а через некоторое время и вовсе перестал их писать, признав, что это не моё. Разумеется, это было совсем не так. Если бы я не воспринял так близко к сердцу слова бабушки, то я, скорее всего, так и продолжил бы писать стихи. Но в итоге я сам себя убедил, что стихи у меня паршивые и писать я их не умею.
Прошли годы. Я смотрел на то, как другие люди в интернете занимаются творчеством и мне хотелось так же. Мне хотелось играть на гитаре, мне хотелось петь, мне хотелось рисовать, мне хотелось создавать игры... Я хотел выражать свои эмоции через творчество, чтобы их увидели люди, чтобы меня похвалили. Но каждый раз, когда я начинал, мне постоянно что-то мешало. Я боялся, что в любой момент кто-то ворвётся в процесс и осудит меня за непрофессионализм, за плохие идеи и прочее. Поэтому каждый раз это приводило к тому, что я забрасывал всё это и больше никогда не прикасался. За последние 4 года на моём компьютере собрался целый файл под названием "Кладбище идей". На момент написания этих слов в нём находится 23 пункта. Я навряд ли когда-нибудь вернусь к ним, потому что... потому что не могу...

Несколько месяцев назад мне подарили на День Рождения скетчбук. Я не знал, что с ним делать, я же не рисую. Думал, что может быть когда-нибудь я буду использовать его как личный дневник, куда можно записывать свои мысли. Но однажды ночью я лежал в постели и слушал музыку, как вдруг заиграла незнакомая мне песня, которая тронула меня. Я включил повтор и наслаждался моментом... Это было прекрасно. Я хотел остаться в таком состоянии навсегда, но понимал, что это невозможно. И тогда я решил, что можно попытаться сохранить частичку своих эмоций на бумаге. Я взял скетчбук и начал рисовать. Это был очень непрофессиональный рисунок. В нём было плохо абсолютно всё. Но мне это было уже неважно.
На сегодняшний день я нарисовал 13 рисунков. Многие из них - перерисованные персонажи из любимых игр, а некоторые - оригинальные идеи, в которых я запечатлел свои эмоции, свои мысли об этом мире, мысли о том, есть ли в этом мире смысл. Все эти работы нарисованы на уровне пятиклассника, но мне наплевать. Я рисую, потому что хочу. Я не могу сказать, что я испытываю какое-то удовольствие от процесса, но когда наступает нужный момент я достаю скетчбук и начинаю рисовать. Мне не интересно учиться рисовать, я хочу делать так, как считаю нужным.

Эта игра очень сильно напомнила мне свою жизнь. Может быть, бабушка и не пыталась загубить во мне тягу к творчеству, может она действительно старалась помочь, хотела, чтобы я упорнее работал над качеством своих стихов. Может быть... Но вышло ведь всё иначе! Я многие годы страдал от того, что я бездарность и что я никогда ничего не добьюсь. Я столько лет уже живу в этом и наконец готов вернуться к тому, с чего начинал.

История, которую рассказывает автор игры, повествует о человеке, который просто хотел создавать игры. Просто занимался тем, что ему нравилось. Эта история о том, что бывает, когда ты пытаешься исправить то, чего исправлять не нужно. И так же это история о том, как порой то, что ты считаешь добрым поступком, может быть совершенно противоположным с точки зрения того, кому ты пытаешься помочь...

Play this game, when you feel lonely.

모든 창작자들에게 건네는 따뜻한 코코아 한 잔

Дейви a écrit :

Я хочу заглядывать дальше самих игр. Я хочу понять, каков на самом деле этот человек.

The Beginner's Guide – игра, которую невозможно сравнить с какой-либо другой. У неё нет аналогов. Это то, что можно смело назвать элементом современного искусства. Она по-своему неповторима. А всё почему? Эта игра способна вызывать ваши глубинные чувства: она их находит, достаёт, играет с ними, сжимает, душит, трепит, а потом будто нахально бросает их вам, а вы только этому рады, потому что, возможно, это лучшее, что вы бы могли испытать за весь свой игровой опыт.
Кхм-кхм, простите, давайте пройдёмся по сути.

Сюжет

Сюжет этой игры сначала кажется довольно простым и понятным: Дейви, создатель игры The Stanley Parable, делится с нами играми, которые были созданы его другом Кодой. Большинство из них представляет нам не очень обыкновенный, странный гейм-дизайн и полусырую механику уровней. Благо, что нас сопровождает тот самый Дейви и помогает нам понять мысль и идею, заложенную в этих играх, попутно (прошу запомнить для себя следующее) исправляя "баги и неиграбельные моменты" в играх. Через свою призму видения мира, он пытается показать всю гениальность игр Коды, выражая это тем, что они являлись для него творческим вдохновением. Однако, уважаемый читатель, история движется вперёд и события, ею же движимые, становятся более замысловатыми и неоднозначными. Сюжетная линия The Beginner's Guide принимает всё более крутые повороты, и всё это выглядит, как катящийся и постепенно увеличивающийся снежный шар, который вот-вот непременно раздавит игрока. Так оно и происходит (в переносном смысле, конечно). Вся та тяжесть, которая накапливалась по мере движения сюжета, под финал обрушивается на игрока,
открывая всю правду. Всё это звучит как-то обычно, но я уверяю вас: пройдите эту игру, и вы всё пойметё. Одно лишь скажу, что концовка у The Beginner's Guide заставит вас задуматься о многом и даст пищу для размышлений о всех мотивах Коды в его играх.

Механика

Старый добрый движок Source, добавить больше нечего.

Саундтрек

Господи, сложно представить The Beginner's Guide без его саундтрека: это будто половина составляющей всей игры, и с этим невероятно трудно поспорить. Кажется, что всю музыка к играм будто сам Кода делал, потому что это сочетание можно интерпретировать только одним примером: Инь и ян. Игры и саундтрек к ним будто неделимы, и невозможно представить одно без другого. Огромные благодарности Райану Роту за его титанический труд. Музыкальное оформление позволяет прочувствовать игры Коды именно так, как они задумывались; через них ощущаешь не только глубину задумки игр, но и состояния их автора. Я же говорю: словно Кода приложил руку к созданию саундтрека, который, по своей сути, и является тем ключом к разгадке великого смысла всего, что показано в The Beginner's Guide.

Заключение

Было бы слишком типично, если бы я просто написал 10/10. Мне хочется сказать лишь несколько важных вещей: во-первых, если Вы любитель пофилософствовать и и искать смысл между строк, то эта игра несомненно обязана пополнить Вашу библиотеку. Просто must-have, никак иначе. Во-вторых, если же Вам наскучили и попросту надоели типичные шутеры или RPG, то вам следует рассмотреть факт покупки The Beginner's Guide. Бесспорно, это разнообразит Ваши игровые будни и будет, так сказать, "выходным". Бродилки расслабляют, не так ли? А вообще, для Вас не должно быть разграничений, поэтому просто последуйте следующему совету: покупайте The Beginner's Guide. Это вложение денег будет для Вас куда ценее, чем покупка какой-нибудь раскрученной игры, сделанной без души, уж поверьте.
А на этой ноте, я, пожалуй, остановлюсь и ещё раз скажу: покупайте The Beginner's Guide.

Davey Wreden es probablemente el único desarrollador de videojuegos que se ha propuesto crear obras tan determinadas a plantear su enfoque meta-gaming y colocar sobre la mesa sus premisas de forma explorativa. Mientras The Stanley Parable aborda el tema de la relación entre el juego y el jugador, The Beginner’s Guide aborda la temática de la relación que existe entre el crítico y el producto —o, mejor dicho, entre el crítico y el autor del producto—, y lo hace siguiendo el mismo formato que el título anterior: un walking simulator ♥♥♥ un narrador consciente de la presencia del jugador; narrador que, en este caso, sería el mismo Davey.

Hola, muchas gracias por jugar The Beginner’s Guide. Mi nombres de Davey Wreden. Escribí The Stanley Parable y, aunque ese juego cuenta una historia bastante absurda, hoy voy a contarte una serie de acontecimientos que ocurrieron entre 2008 y 2011. Vamos a echar un vistazo a los juegos creados por un amigo mío llamado Coda.

Así comienza The Beginner’s Guide, ♥♥♥ una invitación de parte de Davey para analizar una serie de juegos independientes creados por su amigo, Coda. Dicho inicio marca la premisa del título, el cual es tomar al jugador de la mano y llevarlo por el proceso de la crítica hacia los videojuegos, y, en el camino, analizar al autor de los mismos (su personalidad, su proceso creativo y hasta sus estados anímicos). De manera tal que The Beginner’s Guide no es en sí un juego ♥♥♥ fines lúdicos, sino más bien es un tour a través de varios pequeños juegos independientes, y será el mismo narrador, Davey, quien nos dirá cómo se deben interpretar estos juegos para conocer a su autor.

Algo que queda enfatizado desde el principio del juego es que los juegos creados por Coda fueron hechos para su disfrute personal y no para el público, por lo que la única manera de conocer estos pequeños softwares es mediante Davey. Y algo que hace este narrador para mostrarnos los juegos de Coda desde “dentro”, y argumentarnos sus interpretaciones, será intervenir en ellos: en algunas ocasiones podrá hacer las paredes transparentes para mostrarnos los pasillos de un nivel, o abrirnos ciertas puertas para que podamos abrir paso; esto ♥♥♥ el fin de que no solo veamos los juegos de Coda desde la perspectiva del jugador, sino también desde la perspectiva del diseñador.

Es imposible hacer un análisis de The Beginner’s Guide sin hacer spoilers sobre su contenido. Sin embargo, sí es posible bordear una discusión sobre los temas que trata. A este respecto, el título lidia de manera muy meta-textual las intenciones del crítico al analizar un producto. Uno de los estipulados que veremos realizarse eventualmente en el juego es el hecho de que el ego del crítico en realidad está construido sobre su misma habilidad para decirle a la gente qué inteligentes e interesantes son los juegos; juegos que no son producidos por él, sino por otras personas. Por tanto, ¿es un hecho que el crítico se hace un nombre a expensas de otros? Y si ese es el caso, ¿qué tanto le conviene al crítico interpretar y analizar los juegos de una u otra manera para conseguir la aprobación del público? Como quien dice: “Sí, mírenme, tengo muchas habilidades lingüísticas e interpretativas a la hora de analizar este medio interactivo. Quiero hacerme un nombre, tener renombre, ser reconocido. Sentirme bien conmigo mismo. Tener una audiencia que me siga”. Y sí, es cierto que en el caso de muchos reseñadores, comentaristas y críticos estas ideas dan a luz, sutilmente, pero el caso es que The Beginner’s Guide me las ha gritado en la cara, me ha expuesto, como parte de su audiencia objetivo, y no puedo sino, como todo comentarista ante este escenario, reconocer y dar mi cara ante dicha verdad.

Luego del lanzamiento de The Beginner’s Guide han habido ciertos rumores entre el círculo de críticos sobre la identidad del Davey Wreden del juego, argumentado que no es en realidad el Davey Wreden real. ¿Pero no es el mismo narrador del juego el que afirma que The Beginner’s Guide se basa en acontecimientos que ocurrieron entre 2008 y 2011? El caso es este: luego del lanzamiento de The Stanley Parable, Wreden hizo una declaración personal en su blog sobre haber sufrido un período de ansiedad intenso al recibir tanta atención debido al éxito de su juego, y por las distintas acogidas que hizo la crítica acerca del mismo. Y, dos años después, lanza The Beginner’s Guide, narrado por él mismo, ♥♥♥ la premisa de “venga, analicemos una serie de juegos para conocer a su autor”... ¿Y esto lo hace como respuesta a qué? ¿Cómo respuesta a la misma audiencia de críticos que sobre-analizaron The Stanley Parable? ¿Es entonces Coda una persona real o un alter-ego del mismo Davey Wreden luego del lanzamiento de dicho juego? ¿Es el Davey Wreden del juego (el narrador) una interpretación de él mismo o, más bien, representa la audiencia que criticó The Stanley Parable?

Al final, hay al menos dos maneras de leer este juego:

1. Es la historia de un hombre tan desesperado por la aprobación del público que destruye la obra de otra persona y pierde su amistad; una advertencia para desarrolladores, creadores y artistas sobre cómo los límites entre las obras que crean y sus vidas personales pueden ser irrespetadas, y, a la vez, una parábola para críticos sobre ir demasiado lejos y leer muy entre líneas un producto. Un juego que dice que cualquier análisis de un juego es mayormente una auto-proyección de nosotros mismos como críticos y genios idealizados de la industria, para hacernos sentir bien ante una audiencia. Un juego ♥♥♥ un estandarte de “anti-crítico”. Y este es mi problema ♥♥♥ este enfoque al momento de interpretar The Beginner’s Guide. En lo personal, me hace sentir atacado. Es por ello que prefiero el enfoque alterno, el que, según creo, apunta a la realidad y, en vez de hacerme sentir pisoteado, me hace sentir como el que tiene la bota...
   
2. The Beginner’s Guide es un juego sobre el litigio de Davey Wreden al lidiar ♥♥♥ el éxito de The Stanley Parable, sobre cómo las personas forzaban sus interpretaciones en su juego, sobre su temor de no poder seguir haciendo títulos de este estilo y perder la chispa creativa, sobre la idea de que necesita de la aprobación de los demás para seguir adelante como desarrollador independiente. Pero si tomo este enfoque interpretativo, estoy cayendo en el error que comete el crítico de la industria del entretenimiento, el error que el juego trata de denunciar: tratar de examinar a un autor mediante su obra. Y… ¿es de esto de lo que se trata The Beginner’s Guide de, de alguna manera u otra, hacer sentir aludidos a los críticos mediante un argumento de hombre de paja, mediante una indirecta, sea atacándolos sutilmente (1) o hacerlos sentir vulnerables por su mismo proceder (2)? Porque ciertamente este otra lectura del juego me hace sentir vulnerado, y expuesto.

Entonces, ¿cómo debería interpretarse The Beginner’s Guide?

DON'T read the reviews. DON'T watch the trailer. BUY the game. PLAY it. THINK about it. FEEL it.

Never before have I experienced anything quite like it.
It takes you away and makes you feel completley submerged.

This game is very personal.
Beware that it might hit you in the feels.

I feel emotionally drained.

10/10

C'est plus une expérience qu'un jeu, et TBG rejoint sur cet aspect le jeu précédent de Davey Wreden, The Stanley Parable.
Pas de score, pas de danger, pas d'ennemi, et pas de casse-tête problématique.

La narration (en anglais, sous titré avec précision) est prépondérante.

Ce "jeu" propose de parcourir des niveaux ou des scènes en 3D qui mettent en évidence des réflexions sur la création, la solitude, l'insatisfaction, le manque de confiance, etc...
Comme dans Stanley, le joueur est manipulé : on le perd, on le trompe, on l'oblige... et forcément on le rend réceptif à une réflexion psychologique indolore mais assez profonde.
Sans s'ennuyer, on se balade, on écoute le monsieur, on cherche les leviers, on passe au niveau suivant, si différent...
Et on dit merci en partant.

I played through this, not really knowing anything or expecting anything particular.

I feel like I was violated and violated someone or something in return.
I cried so much. This game is part me and probably part you.

I showered while sitting on the floor afterwards. I thought I was done crying.
I'm not.

This is not a fun experience. This game is dread, sadness, loneliness, desperation, anxiety, and a conclusion that I am not sure is a good message for some. Because in the end, nearly everything in this game is unhealthy behaviour. Because communication could have solved a lot. Instead, there is a lot of pain.

DO NOT PLAY THIS IF YOU ARE NOT IN A GOOD PLACE AT THE MOMENT.

It is a very intelligent and though provoking experience though. Worth your time, if you are up for a good no fun story.

Let me start this review with the fact that this game is not like anything you have ever played.
It does not involve shooting, car chases or any type of sports. instead, it tells a story.

I won't include any actual info about the story since it's the only thing this game has to offer. it might sound like not enough, but once you'll play this game start to finish, you'll understand what i'm talking about.

The game maybe be a bit short, but it really does not need any more time to prove itself.
it's just so deep and sophisticated, you will ponder it's meaning for days after you finished it.

If you have time, spare cash or just looking to diverse a bit, i definitely recommend this short game experience..

This game is an emotional ride. It is one of the most perfect discourses on loneliness, illness, and perception/misperception. At only a few hours long, it is a succinct exposition on what it feels like to be alone, to be depressed, and to be anxious. Does that sound like a bad thing? Well, it's not. It's like a breath of fresh air to not only hear about these taboo subjects, but visualize them, feel the depth and breadth of them, and actually understand the yearning in it.

If you are going through a hard time, play this game. If you think no one understands you, play this game. If you need help with your own issues, play this game. Or if you simply want to be moved by another's story, play this game. It is eminently relatable to any and all. Unless you are an abiotic robot, ofc. :p

It's a very powerful experience. And it even offers a solution. Get it! Cheaper than therapy, lol.

更新于2017年1月
以下内容是对剧情的感想，谈谈游戏中将我震撼/触动的地方，涉及严重剧透，酌情浏览

1、出现BUG的光柱，在BUG作用下升空后看到了宇宙的宏观景象
2、充满点子的房间内漂浮的点子
3、整理房间关卡中的配乐（曲名:Va, 人声/编写 by Helina Heron）

4、持“枪”杀死自己的时候房间碎裂，房间内对Coda的拷问文字
5、在漫长的塔内旅行的时候，最后结束的时候突然在游戏中看到了Coda给作者的留言。出现的是如此突然，但是句句揪心。
6、作者陷入深深的自责的时候，一段漫长的步行。这一段的场景我是觉得最美的。宽广的候车大厅、类似于海边的沙滩（迷之逻辑美）、最后长长的的甬道。这一段把无尽的、浪漫的孤独感发挥到了极致。这一段的音乐也很棒叫做Depature，作曲Ryan Roth
7、呼应开头，将你送上天空的光柱。那一段壮丽的景象让人不禁落泪（至少我鼻子一酸），配上Ryan Roth的配乐
8、游戏结束，Halina Heron唱的《Turn Back》，感觉自己仿佛得到天启，经历了一段唯美、宏伟的心灵历程
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又过了很久回来评价这款游戏，客观评价一下吧
首先，期望着像是《史丹利预言》一样给你惊喜的玩家，我想说的是会让你有点小失望。这款游戏中，玩家将要体验的是一种超越现实的、自己能参与进去的视觉小说。
我觉得隐隐约约中，应该能感觉的到有很多和我一样喜欢这种超现实的作品的玩家。我的意思是，这款游戏的画面精美吗？精美。但是足够精致吗？不精致。但是偏偏那些场景和画面所体现的逻辑感，让那种孤独一个人的浪漫达到极致。
至于为什么叫做《新手指南》，我想作者用一个时长达到1小时多的游戏切切实实的告诉了我们。如果你感觉不能理解，或者感觉他在浪费你的时间，我觉得也是情有可原的。但是我觉得这款游戏和《史丹利的寓言》相比，精致和用心程度一点也没有减少。
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我觉得，可能只有内心真正孤独的人才在玩这个游戏的时候才能感觉到这个游戏的美感吧。
然后，实名反对底下的一个差评。这个差评提到这个游戏相比前作，少了游戏性，缺少了玩家的互动。但是你真的玩过这个游戏吗？游戏作者就是在探讨【游戏应不应该有游戏性，或者让玩家做出选择】。这才是这个游戏想表达的一个核心思想。

Ein emotionales Meisterwerk über menschliche Schwächen, Interpretationen und die Narrative als Kunstform - Man kann nicht viel darüber sagen ohne den magischen Effekt des Games zu zerstören.

Es gibt kein ähnliches Game was so mit der Erwartungshaltung und dem Medium spielt wie The Beginners Guide, es ist als würde das Game die Gedanken die man während des Spielens hat gegen dich nutzen um dir eine noch stärkere Erfahrung zu geben.

Absolutes Pflichtspiel für jeden Fan von Storygames - 9/10

Full Review/Analyse:

I'm going through my entire library and putting a minimum of an hour into each game and then reviewing them, here is mine for The Beginner's Guide:

Really good, but also feels kinda pretentious at times. Developed by one of the developers of the stanley parable, you can definitly tell a lot of time and love went into this game. As walking sims go I def recommend it overall.

I saw things in this game that I didn't want to see in myself.

Honestly, I am pretty much speechless. No game or story line should I say, has ever made me this speechless. Ignore the negative reviews about it being "pointless", "a waste of time", or "too short". It is absolutely none of those. An hour and a half is plenty long for a game like this. It is made to have no goals or objectives (like the game description says), but it is not pointless. It will resonate with everyone differently, and by the end of the game, everyone will have a different summary of the game even though we all heard the same story. Of course, be aware the game is somewhat depressing and not for everyone and it's not easily understandable (but I feel it is meant to be that way because the description states this, ". . . a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand."). It's one of those games that's gonna stick with you for a while for sure.

I just played this game from start to finish in one sitting.

Wow.

That is what I found myself saying.

Wow.

Just wow.

This is why I play games. This is what I live for.

I love to see this sort of personal journey. This journey through feelings. Through life.

It is so meaningful, so deep. Haunting even.

This is art. Art of one’s self; of one’s mind.

It was beautiful. Beautiful.

Beautiful.


Thank you Davey.
And thank you Coda.

This is what (postmodern) art should be.

It is a challenging piece--it does not ask a lot of you for the 2 hours or so while you are holding the controller, but does ask a lot of you for the hours (days, weeks, months, years) thereafter when you will still be thinking about it. That time will not necessarily be an entirely comfortable experience--but it may also be beautiful and resonant. Well worth your time and money.

We will never get to know other people, and this feeling is so terrible. Do we really need empathy? If needed, why doesn't it work as it should? Where is the line between me and the other person? How much have I already ruined by trying to be good? Do my feelings even matter?
This is awesome game, go play it
If already played, then replay

今天仔细想了想这个游戏，这个游戏可能比我之前以为的要深刻，或者说有趣许多。

你们知道魔术吗？魔术的本质就是让你以为的，并不是你以为的。

游戏的旁白意味着什么？
游戏里什么时候开始你会认为旁白一定说的是真话？
因为它一开始以一种貌似客观或反省的语气吗？
什么是对的，什么是错的？
什么是真的，什么又是假的？

从游戏一开始，作者就开始暗示我们：
你看到的只是作者想要你看到的。
而你看不到的地方，可能还有许多许多：
异或是星空，异或是迷宫。

什么事情都真的是你所看到的那样吗？
coda的作品最后都有一个路灯，象征着某个目的？
从最后一关可以看出并非如此，但真的仅仅如此吗？
coda意味着什么？coda是谁？coda真的存在吗？
旁白就是作者自己吗？

来谈谈别的吧。

你们还记得魔术吗？魔术的本质就是让你以为的，并不是你以为的。

说起来有点拗口，我记得我曾看过一部关于魔术的电影，讲述的是各式各样的魔术，和与敌人的互相揭秘，魔术越来越庞大，但都被巧妙的手法或诡计圆了回来，结果到最后一幕，魔术有个怎么都不可能的死结，我绞尽脑汁，希望想出一个可能的解答，结果电影最后告诉观众这是魔法！（笑）然后影片就结束了。

我第一次看到这里时，简直想把编剧掐死，这种强行翻转，这不是硬生生毁了一部电影吗？之后我才意识到：凭什么电影不能出现魔法？之前也有过暗示，但就凭他们一直讲科学，你就以为这不是一部玄幻电影吗？电影里什么不可能发生？是什么让你对电影不可能出现魔法的错觉？是电影名字？还是前半段严谨的氛围？还是主角和反派们一直在讲科学？

那当然是啊，所有的都是啊。这就是魔术啊。

还记得魔术的本质吗？魔术的本质就是让你以为的，并不是你以为的。
你以为这是一部讲魔术的电影，其实都是魔法，瞧，这是个多么漂亮的魔术。
你以为的，并不是你以为的。

生命本就是一场盛大的演出，而游戏和文字，存在本身就是一个魔术。




最后我要说，那部关于魔术的电影，其实并不存在，是我编出来骗你的。
你以为的，并不是你以为的。
晚安。

This is not a conventional game. It is only about an hour and a half long and I would not recommend it to anyone.

HOWEVER

If you're a creative of any kind, regardless of your medium, whether you're an aspiring amateur or a seasoned professional, you need to experience this game and story. Chances are that you will find many relatable points in regards to the creative struggle, self-doubt and motivation (or lack thereof), both as the artist and the person looking in from the outside.

I cannot recommend this game enough if you fall into that category. This narrative will stick with you and make you think.

From the developer of The Stanley Parable comes another excellent title. Similar to TSP; this title is a walking simulator coupled with a really strong narrative. This was one of those titles for me that was always on my radar thanks to my enjoyment of TSP however I never got around to it. I jumped in blind after a seasonal sale and it well worth the experience.

If you haven't heard anything about this game and enjoy narrative titles just do yourself a favor and pick it up to play without looking into it. It is a short under two hour experience that will leave you with some very interesting thoughts and perspective.

Crim's Humble Opinion Curator

An "experience" featuring the narrator trying to understand an average Source mapper.
It's more of a life story than a game.

The story in this game was so well told that I'm still trying to figure out if it was real or not.

(P.S. I cried.)

Deberías jugar The Beginner's Guide.
Creo que el problema (si es correcto llamarlo así, pues este "problema" radica en la opinión de los fans sobre The Beginner's Guide) es que la gente no está acostumbrada a sentarse en frente de un monitor para al cabo de dos horas, hallarse ♥♥♥ la mirada perdida al haberse dado cuenta de algo nuevo sobre sí mismos. Hay una cosa que me molesta en particular sobre esta sociedad, y es la obsesión ♥♥♥ la felicidad. Hay que vivir el momento, siempre tener una sonrisa en el rostro y reírse a cada oportunidad que se presente. Y sí, la felicidad está bien, pero, ¿acaso cuando te vas a la cama te cuentas un chiste a ti mismo, y concilias el sueño al cabo de la carcajada resultante?
Estoy siendo exagerado, pero lo que estoy intentando decir es que no todo son carcajadas y albricias en la vida, a veces lo más reconfortante es meterte en la cama y darte cuenta de que has aprendido algo más sobre la vida y la perspectiva de los demás sobre la misma.
Me niego a darle a The Beginner's Guide la etiqueta de "videojuego", pues no contiene los pilares que la industria de este ha ido desarrollando a lo largo de la historia. No es divertido, no es largo, no puedes jugar ♥♥♥ amigos y por supuesto no es rejugable. Pero es una experiencia que nos hace pensar, y en un mundo movido por el pulsar botones a la velocidad de la luz, un poco de reflexión no viene mal.
Todos tenemos un Coda dentro. Deberías reconciliarte ♥♥♥ él. Juega The Beginner's Guide.

非常能够触动人心的游戏。
既然做出了游戏那就分享出来吧。一起体验欢乐愉悦的气氛吧。
为什么要藏着掖着呢？
不要害怕自己的作品他人怎么看
只要内容正统，没有任何恶意，就算是评价再低又如何呢？
敞开心扉，与人交流，多分享自己的产品吧Coda。非常希望你能继续下去……
来自于史丹利的寓言同样的作者，但是与TSP的气氛完全不相似。
值得去玩的一个体验他人心理历程的游戏。
Forgive him, Coda. And pls keep making games. We are waiting for you.

5 euro crying session

英語わからない人への警告：
すばらしいけど本当に英語わからないとダメ。スタンリーぐらいの英語なら、と思って買うとたぶん何も理解できずに終わる。ただThe Stanley Parableより日本語化が難しそうな内容なのでやりたい人は気長に待つべし。

どちらかというと物作りが好きな人向け。クリエイティブ職についてる人間の誰しもが欲っする承認欲求と、自分の本当に作りたいものを人気が出るにつれて「一般向け」に対応していかなければいかないという使命感、そしてユーザーの期待という名のプレッシャー。これらがすごくよく描かれている「作品」だと思う。下手すると絵をかいたりゲームを作ったりそれ関連のことを一切知らない人や、ただゲームがやりたい人がやっても伝わりにくいものだとは思う。ただ、逆にそういうものにかかわった経験のある人、興味がある人、Dear EsterやThe Stanley Parableをやって面白さを感じた人であれば、この「作品」は色々考えさせられる素晴らしい物だと思う。

そしてもし、これを日本語化などがされたときに将来やりたいと思っている人がここにいれば、The Beginner's Guideに関する情報は基本的には見ない方がいいだろう。

This is not a fun game. If you wanted to feel good about yourself, or about your experience with this game, do not buy it. This game is about seclusion. This game is about betrayed expectations. This game is about demons and dreams of drowning. You are stuck and whatever was supposed to help you has failed. Walk. Try to listen. Try to learn. You won't feel good. You may even feel terrible, as I do.

Play it. Search for the meaning.

Whether you consider games to be an art form or not, story-telling certainly is, and that is where this game excels. The Beginner's Guide truly is one of the most genuine pieces of entertainment in recent years. It is like a personal essay, but in cinematic form, embodying feelings of projection, depression, inadequacy, and a plea for help. It is masterful at what it seeks to do. Nothing more, nothing less truly a powerful experience.

The Source Engine was used to create the various short gameplay experiences you will have along your journey, so they may not have the prettiest visuals. Yet if you look at the environments from a more artistic perspective You will realize just how beautiful each short scenario is in how they portray their messages.

Everything has meaning, from the aesthetics to the level design, whether simple or complex. The creator knows that it is not the most photorealistic or pleasing game out there, and therefore does not try to make it visually appealing. He instead incorporates that feeling through set-pieces throughout the environment and creates an artistically good-looking game through clever design and creativity.

The soundtrack for The Beginner's Guide is simply immaculate. It is ambient music done right, with impactful tracks that leave a lasting mark. Every score creates the perfect atmosphere and tension required to evoke the emotion that the level showcases. Ryan Roth truly hit it out of the park. He even managed to incorporate many small details within each track that make them all feel so unique and astonishing, especially when combined with the setting.

One of my favorite examples is "Shutter", It is a track that plays during a level where the whole theme is that you can only go backward. It creates this ominous and mysterious tension which causes the player to be cautious and confused. If you were to stop and listen to the track you would notice how it is played backwards. If you reversed it, back to the original state, it sounds much less ominous and just purely puzzling. Replaying that level with this in mind makes the quotes scattered throughout feel even more impactful than originally perceived.

The ending credits song, also by Ryan, truly is beautiful, it features Halina Heron, it portrays depression, and how it is mentally and physically draining. It depicts how one can have the weight of the world on their shoulders forcing them to give in while encouraging those suffering to not let it happen. Give it another shot, you can do it if you try! So turn back and try again "But I know that you're strong." "so turn back, turn back."

The gameplay is much like That Dragon, Cancer. In the sense that it is an incredibly immersive narrative game that tells a short but touching story while exploring powerful themes throughout it. It is a linear and curated vision of small unpublished games created in the Source engine. Some people would describe it as a walking simulator with the occasional interactive element, but that is discrediting it. The Beginner's Guide truly is a cinematic experience within the medium of video games.

The narration is the meat of the game. Davey Wreden does an excellent job creating this bond between himself and the player. Throughout the game, you almost become one with him. You start relating to what he says and piece together that no one is perfect, not him, Coda nor you. The imperfections begin to shine as you progress further into the story. And, it would not have been as heart-wrenching if it were not for Davey's incredible voice acting guiding us through Coda's games.

At face value, The Beginner's Guide is essentially an autobiographical story about Davey Wreden's relationship with a programmer that we know as "Coda" throughout their lives between 2008 and 2011. How it started, how it ended, and in between. The player gets put right into Davey's shoes as he explains everything from his perspective of this heart-rending story. That is at least at face value, but if you delve further into it you will realize that there lies a much deeper story about Davey Wreden himself within that story, regarding his life, success, and depression.

It is a short but powerful game, roughly 90 minutes long.

All in all The Beginner's Guide is an extremely fascinating and thought-provoking game that has some of the best character-driven storytelling in recent years, alongside being backed by an outstanding soundtrack and incredible narration. It will leave a lasting mark on you, and I could not recommend it enough.

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cabbage shapes our nation

This game is good. You should play it. Let's get broken together.

"Stop adding lampposts to my games."

Coda

I am taking this quote in my grave, it really hits me.

You know what guys? I think this is the very last game of Coda, I mean the whole Beginner's Guide. It's a reminder for everyone saying that you should NEVER give up at things that you like the most and also to DO NOT let anyone destroy them for you. This game isn't created to be disassembled, it's created for you to play it whenever you feel down and you want to collect some courage again and live the life that you really deserve, it's here to remind yourself that everything you're doing is worth it and it's yours. This game is truly a masterpiece. Make your dreams come true guys and remember that your only enemy is yourself.

I was here.

Da haben wir es schon: Wie fange ich eine Review über ein Spiel an, was man einfach nicht in Worte fassen kann? Was ein derart überwältigt, dass man einfach nicht mehr weiß was man sagen soll? Vielleicht beginne ich einfach am Anfang.

Ich habe von dem Spiel gehört und erwartet es wäre etwas wie "The Stanley Parable". Von den Bildern die ich bis dahin gesehen habe, kam das auch ganz gut hin. Also habe ich ohne darüber nachzudenken dieses Spiel gekauft. Und ich war überrascht. Es ist komplett anders als das, was ich erwartet habe. Eigentlich ist es nur ein Hörbuch. Und an dieser Stelle werde ich nun aufhören weiter über das Spiel zu reden, denn wie eingangs erwähnt: Man kann es einfach nicht beschreiben.

Wenn du dir noch keinen Trailer angeguckt hast: Lass es! Kauf dir das Spiel und spiele es. In ca. 1,5 Stunden bist du durch. Und das nicht nur mit dem Spiel. Es regt zum Nachdenken an. Zum Handeln.

Very touching story, I'm still a bit upset and can't refrain from thinking about R. and Davey.

Thanks for sharing, despite the aftermath.

This game wrecked me.

Эта игра просто вывернула меня на изнанку. Все чувство, отражены в этом видео....
Я просто промолчу. Дейви спасибо за такую игру.... она простая.....но......мне ужасно хочется плакать, так как я тоже чувствую одиночество.....Thanks

Bu oyunu oynayacak arkadaşlar ilk once şunu bilmeli ki ismi her ne kadar bir oyun olsada tam tanımı bu değil. Aslın da oyun kısmında biz yokuz. Oyunu yapan Davey Wreden'in iç dünyasının ona oynadığı oyunlara şahitlik ediyoruz. Bir nevi Dear Esther kivaminda ilerleyen, Coda adini verdigi ve muhtemelen kendisinden bahsettiği bu yürüme simülasyonunda oyun üretme aşamasında çektiği sıktıntı ve bunalımları anlatıyor bize aslında. Sanki bir arkadaşından bahsediyormuşcasına. Üreticiliğinin bittiği ve kendini tükenmiş hissettiği zamanlarda ki psikolojik durumlarını betimliyor oyun boyunca ve kendinizi onun yerine koymanızı istiyor bir yerde ve onu anlamanızı. Ki oyun boyunca vurucu kelimelerle bahsettiği oyun yapma sürecinin ne denli sancılı, ne denli zor ve yorucu olduğunu, oyun yapanı hem psikolojik hemde fiziki olarak nasıl tükettiğini anlatıyor. Klasik oyuncu hareketlerini analiz ederek size kendi dünyasında bu oyuncu profilleri üzerinden dersler veriyor ve yapılanın ne kadar zor bir iş olduğunu sizi de içine katarak uygulamalı olarak gösteriyor. Bir ♥♥♥ yerde kendinizi onun yerine koyarak sadece oynadiginiz bu oyunda bile kapana kısılmış gibi hissediyorsunuz. İşte bu da The Beginner's Guide'in size anlatmak istediği temel konu oluyor. Kısacası bu simülasyon ile eğlenceli zamanlar geçirmeyi düsünmeyin. Çünkü oyun eğlendirmek yerine biraz üzücü ve karamsar havası ile size bir mesaj iletmeye çalışıyor. Ve bu mesajı İngilizce olarak iletiyor ama İngilizcesi olmayan arkadaşlar için yardım sever bir arkadaş Türkçe yamasını da çıkarmış. O yüzden bu yama ile sizde bu ilginç deneyime katilip Davey Wreden'in aklına girebilirsiniz..

This game made me weep.

This game is beautiful like precious few things in this world are.

I haven't read any other reviews, but I'm sure I won't be the first to say that this is one of those games that is better off not described or summarized. It should just be played.

The Beginner's Guide it's not a game, it's an experience.

If you're a sensitive soul or just enjoy a compelling story I strongly recommend this game.
This is the first thing I've ever played that I would consider more art than game.

>friend sent me this game during the christmas sale

>made by the guy that made the stanley parable, thought it would be funny

>not funny, is actually extremely depressing

>♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

У меня нет слов. Только эти вот и нашлись, чтобы передать, что я испытала.
P.S. У меня много дел. Самое время для того, чтобы поправить книжные полки, подушки и повернуть рычаг.
Или шагнуть в луч. "Бери меня за руку, шагнём вместе".
P.P.S. Всё будет хорошо. :)

I'm not one to write reviews generally, but this short narrative was an amazing experience. It takes you for a few twists and turns, and gets you introspectively thinking. In my personal opinion, don't take everything said by the narrator at face value, dig a little deeper for the meaning. But, ya know, the possibility still stands - who am I!

Be warned; this is not a game, at least in the traditional sense of the word. Honestly, the medium it best resembles is a short story. If you're willing to go into it expecting mainly narration and little in the way of traditional interactiveness, then the Beginner's guide is a brilliant short story that explores the nature of storytelling, loneliness, and the video game genre itself.

Although it winds up being less dark than I anticipated, you should be prepared to confront themes of depression and loneliness.

Too often, people equate a game's value and its length, when they really shouldn't. I don't have that much free time, so it's hard for me to really get invested in long games, so when a game like this manages to condense a meaningful story into a short experience such as this, I'm usually satisfied.

A lot of the game's themes were personally relatable, and I'm glad I had this experience. If you're hesitant, and haven't really liked other walking simulator type games, then you probably won't like this one. But if you're willing to try playing a game and analyzing it in the same way one would a book, then I wholeheartedly recommend it.